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Characterization of CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 Pharmacogenetic Variation in Sub‐Saharan African Populations

open access: yesClinical Pharmacology &Therapeutics, Volume 115, Issue 3, Page 576-594, March 2024.
Genetic variation in CYP2B6 and CYP2A6 is known to impact interindividual response to antiretrovirals, nicotine, and bupropion, among other drugs. However, the full catalogue of clinically relevant pharmacogenetic variants in these genes is yet to be established, especially across African populations. This study therefore aimed to characterize the star
David Twesigomwe   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS? GENOMIC HISTORY AND THE RETURN OF RACE IN THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN

open access: yesHistory and Theory, Volume 63, Issue 1, Page 45-70, March 2024.
ABSTRACT This article discusses the impact of genomic history, a subdiscipline that emerged in the study of the ancient Mediterranean in the 2010s. In 2014, scientists first published a method for extracting genetic material, which they christened aDNA (ancient DNA), from ancient human remains in hot climates.
Christopher Stedman Parmenter
wiley   +1 more source

Paul Newman: A Hausa–English Dictionary

open access: yesLexikos, 2011
Hausa (Chadic/Afroasiatic) is a major world language, spoken by more than 40 million people who are mostly found in northern Nigeria and the Republic of Niger. A sizeable number reside in other parts of Nigeria and the major cities of West Africa (Accra,
Malami Buba
doaj   +1 more source

An Excerpt from the Comparative and Etymological Dictionary of Beja: Anatomical Lexicon

open access: yesFolia Orientalia
The present study summarizes the anatomic lexicon of Beja, the only representative of the North Cushitic branch according to all relevant sources published during last two centuries.
Václav Blažek
doaj   +1 more source

The Mao and Komo Languages in the Begi – Tongo area in Western Ethiopia: Classification, Designations, and Distribution

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2015
This survey endeavours through field research along with a critical review of relevant literature to shed some light on the complicated socio-linguistic and language-geographic situation in the Begi–Tongo area in Western Ethiopia, and to suggest a more ...
Klaus-Christian Küspert
doaj   +1 more source

Why Hadza is (probably) not Afroasiatic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Problems with the lexical evidence used to posit Hadza as an Afroasiatic language are discussed. The failure to identify certain loanwords and the misanalysis of certain Hadza morphemes are problems rectified by having greater familiarity with Hadza and its linguistic contact history. Other problems are more general to the specific methodology employed.
Bonny Sands   +3 more
openaire   +1 more source

A malacological survey in the Manso Power Plant, State of Mato Grosso, Brazil: new records of freshwater snails, including transmitters of schistosomiasis and exotic species

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2014
Introduction Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease of public health concern in Brazil, and the construction of hydroelectric dams, in addition to increasing permanent human settlement and tourism, has created conditions suitable for the establishment of
Monica Ammon Fernandez   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The shaping of character: The classics as a remedy for cultural despair in Victorian England

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 2, Page 4-17, July 2024.
Stephen Gaukroger
wiley   +1 more source

’’Protolanguages’ vs. Linguistic Networks Across Language Branches’. A Basic Inventory for Relations of Concepts in Prehistoric States of Linguistic Communication

open access: yesLimbaj si Context, 2014
The following is a study of the representation of the reflexes of the roots of the Borean language family in the Eurasiatic, Afroasiatic, Sino-Caucasian, Austric, and Amerindian language families.
Fee-Alexandra Haase
doaj   +1 more source

Grammaticalization as gradual process in Hausa reduplication

open access: yesStudies in African Languages and Cultures, 2006
Hausa is a Chadic language of Afroasiatic family that extensively uses reduplication for grammatical and lexical formatives. Reduplication as a universal phenomenon is viewed in both synchronic and diachronic perspectives and it has been studied on a ...
Hafizu Miƙo Yakasai
doaj  

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