Main contents
1. Minority Populations as
Genetic Isolates: The Interpretation of Inbreeding Results
James V. Neel
2. Consanguinity and Genetic
Disease in Finland’s Swedish-Speaking Minority
L. B. Jorde, K. J. Pitkänen, E. O’Brien and A. W. Eriksson
3. The Galton Lecture for 1990:
The Price of Isolation
D. F. Roberts
4. Herero Demographic History
Henry Harpending and Renee Pennington
5. Sociocultural Factors
Influencing the Spread of Myotonic Dystrophy in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean
Region of the Province of Quebec
Suzanne Veillette, Michel Perron, Jean Mathieu, Claude Prévost and Gilles
Hébert
6. Consanguineous Marriage in
Southern Asia: Incidence, Causes and Effects
A.. H. Bittles, S. A. Shami and N. Appaji Rao
7. A Health Profile of Britain’s
Ethnic Minorities
R. Balarajan and Veena Soni Raleigh
8. A Prospective Study on the
Health of Birmingham Babies in Different Ethnic Groups: Interim Findings
Sarah Bundey
9. Health Problems of the
Turkish Minority in Germany: Experiences with a Prenatal β
Thalassaemia Detection Programme
Wolfgang Holzgreve, Peter Miny, Sergi Terçanli and Jurgen Horst
10. Neonatal Screening for
Sickle Cell Disease in London Neonates
A. J. Bellingham, S. Henderson, K. Fishlock, L. Oni and M. E. C. Horn
11. Demographic Characteristics
of the Ethnic Minority Populations of Great Britain
John C. Haskey
12. Ethnic Intermarriage
David Coleman
13. Assortative Mating Among
Minority Ethnic Groups in Moscow and Other Large Cities of the CIS
Olga L. Kurbatova and Elena Yu. Pobedonostseva
14. Future Global Strategies
for Health Care Delivery to Minorities
V. Ramalingaswami, I. C. Verma and B. Aronson