... population on Corsica. Raw datawere treated by classical monofactorial indexes and multivariate analyses. These analysesrevealed no significant reduction of genetic variability ... HbB allele.This was also the case for the Czechoslovakian (Stratil and Bobak, 1988), Sardinian(Naitana et al, 1990) and Italian (Randi et al, 1991) populations. Finally, ... in a population was between 5 and 95%.Multivariate analysesAmong multivariate factor methods, correspondence analysis is particularly suitedfor qualitative data. Raw data...