La contribution démographique et génétique des Filles du roi à la population québécoise contemporaine
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Abstract
Si les caractéristiques sociodémographiques des Filles du roi et le contexte de leur arrivée en Nouvelle-France sont déjà connues, c’est la première fois que l’on entreprend une estimation de leur contribution démographique et génétique à la population québécoise contemporaine. Les calculs ont été effectués pour l’ensemble de la province, ainsi que sur une base régionale en utilisant le fichier de population BALSAC. Nous avons trouvé que les deux tiers des cinq millions d’individus que comporte le fichier BALSAC sont des descendants des Filles du roi. Ces descendants se sont installés partout au Québec suivant le rythme de l’ouverture de nouvelles régions à la colonisation, dans des proportions toutefois plus importantes à l’ouest du Québec. Près de 78% des Filles du roi qui constituaient notre liste de départ ont eu des descendants jusqu’à la période contemporaine. Nous avons aussi reconstitué les généalogies ascendantes de plus de 60 000 individus mariés au Québec en 1960. Nous avons calculé la contribution génétique des Filles du roi à ce groupe qui se chiffre à 9,3%. Cette contribution représente près de 40% de la contribution génétique des fondatrices immigrantes d’origine française, et un peu plus du tiers de celle de l’ensemble des fondatrices immigrantes que nous avons identifiées. Nous avons observé que quelques Filles du roi ont une contribution individuelle très importante dans les régions de l’est du Québec leur permettant de se démarquer également à l’échelle de la province. Nous avons aussi calculé que 73% des Filles du roi ayant eu des descendants jusqu’à la période contemporaine ont transmis leur ADN mitochondrial. En conclusion, nous avons montré, à l’aide d’une approche généalogique et d’analyses démogénétiques, que les Filles du roi et leurs descendants ont participé de façon significative à l’histoire démographique du Québec et à la constitution de son patrimoine génétique. We already have a good knowledge of the sociodemographic characteristics of the women called the King’s Daughters and the context of their arrival in New France. However, here we provide for the first time an estimate of the demographic and genetic contribution of the King’s Daughters to the contemporary Quebec population, both for the province as a whole and on a regional basis using the BALSAC population database. We found that two-thirds of the five million individuals in BALSAC are descendants of the King’s Daughters. These descendants settled throughout Quebec following the opening of new regions to colonization but in greater proportions in western Quebec. Nearly 78% of the King’s Daughters from our initial list have descendants up to the present day. We also reconstructed the ascending genealogies of more than 60,000 married individuals in Quebec in 1960. We calculated the genetic contribution of the King's Daughters to this group, which stands at 9.3%. This contribution represents 40% of the genetic contribution of French female founders, and slightly more than a third of the genetic contribution of all female founders who were identified in our genealogical sample. We have observed that some King’s Daughters have a very important individual contribution in the regions of eastern Quebec, which also sets them apart across the province. We also calculated that 73% of the King's Daughters who had descendants to the contemporary period passed on their mitochondrial DNA. In conclusion, we were able, using a genealogical approach and demogenetic analyses, to show that the King's Daughters and their descendants played a significant role in the demographic history of Quebec and the constitution of its genetic heritage.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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