Abstract
Kinship estimates based on shared proportions of European ancestry are constructed for 284 Utah males born in eight geographic subdivisions. These "ancestral kinship" estimates are compared with kinship coefficients based on DNA polymorphisms, blood groups, genealogies, isonymy, and migration matrices. At the subdivision level, a high correlation is observed between ancestral kinship and kinship based on isonymy. Comparing individuals, a significant correlation is obtained between ancestral kinship and genealogy derived kinship. Kinship estimates based on DNA and blood groups do not correlate significantly with ancestral kinship. This is most likely due to the effects of several generations of random mating in this population. © 1996 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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