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APOE and plasma AD biomarkers: The role of genetic ancestry in Hispanics/Latinos. [PDF]

Alzheimers Dement
Abstract BACKGROUND Apolipoprotein E (APOE) alleles are well‐established genetic risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD), but their effects on AD biomarkers (amyloid beta [Aβ]42/40, phosphorylated tau [p‐tau]181, neurofilament light chain [NfL], and glial fibrillary acidic protein [GFAP]) may vary across populations due to ancestry‐, age‐, and sex ...
Cheung C, Anita NZ, Filigrana P, Fornage M, Gonzalez KA, Gallo LC, Isasi CR, Kaplan RC, Li X, Márquez F, Parada H, Perreira KM, Ramos AR, Rundek T, Tarraf W, Testai FD, DeCarli C, González HM, Sofer T.   +18 more
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Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium (CPIC) Guideline for Thiopurine Dosing Based on TPMT and NUDT15 Genotypes: 2025 Update. [PDF]

Clin Pharmacol Ther
Thiopurine methyltransferase (TPMT) and Nudix hydrolase 15 (NUDT15) are key enzymes that catabolize thiopurines. Decreased or no‐function alleles in TPMT and NUDT15 are associated with reduced or no enzyme activity and predictive of pronounced adverse effects, including severe myelosuppression, that may occur among individuals treated with standard ...
Maillard M, Schwab M, Whirl-Carrillo M, Moyer AM, Suarez-Kurtz G, Pui CH, Stein CM, Klein TE, Spahn C, Kwon S, Hartono JL, de Boer NK, Ahmad T, Antillon-Klussmann FG, Caudle KE, Kato M, Yeoh AEJ, Schmiegelow K, Yang JJ.   +18 more
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Plants and Animals in Brazilian Literature: Introduction

Journal of Lusophone Studies, 2017
The articles included in this special issue reflect on the variety of approaches to plants and animals in Brazilian literature from the Amerindian worldview to more recent writings.
Patrícia Vieira, Maria Esther Maciel
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A bayesian approach to genome/linguistic relationships in native South Americans. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2013
The relationship between the evolution of genes and languages has been studied for over three decades. These studies rely on the assumption that languages, as many other cultural traits, evolve in a gene-like manner, accumulating heritable diversity ...
Carlos Eduardo Guerra Amorim, Rafael Bisso-Machado, Virginia Ramallo, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Sandro Luis Bonatto, Francisco Mauro Salzano, Tábita Hünemeier   +6 more
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Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2009
Catastrophes and Weddings. Chachi Ritual as Metamorphosis. A question that has intrigued anthropologists for a long time is why catastrophic anxieties are so omnipresent among Amerindian peoples. Known in the literature as « millenarianism », fears of an
Istvan Praet
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Resistência e coexistência: da produção de mercadorias à valorização da vida

Motricidades, 2021
Resumo O objetivo central deste ensaio foi discutir a diferença entre uma sociedade pautada na produção de mercadorias, que nega a fruição do ócio a favor do capital, e sociedades indígenas ameríndias, que valorizam a vida humana e dos demais seres. As
Andréia Cordeiro Mecca, Miriã Martins de Brito   +1 more
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Understanding pre-eclampsia and fetal growth restriction at high altitude: A narrative review. [PDF]

Int J Gynaecol Obstet
Abstract Pre‐eclampsia (PE) and fetal growth restriction (FGR) are among the leading causes of maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Both conditions are more frequent and severe at high altitudes due to physiological changes in oxygen availability and vascular adaptation.
Rangel VS, Castillo JM, Duarte JD, Barreto MA, Ramirez AV, Daza JA, Ruiz-Sternberg ÁM.   +6 more
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Of the politicals potencies of the Latin American neo-baroque

Nuevo Itinerario, 2018
The article departs from the analysis of Mi tío el yaguareté of Joao Guimaraes Rosa, emblematic author of the Brazilian literature. It is inserted in the neobarroco by his stylistic conditions , but the analysis that is realized approaches, from a ...
Alejandra Adela González
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Quand les morts reviennent… Réflexion sur l’ancestralité chez les Mayas des Basses Terres

Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2003
When the dead come home… Remarks on ancestor worship among the Lowland Mayas. In Amerindian ethnographical literature, ancestor worship is often mentioned but evidence of its existence is lacking.
Olivier Le Guen
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Ética e profética nas Mitológicas de Lévi-Strauss

Horizontes Antropológicos, 2009
Este artigo intenta extrair das Mitológicas de Claude Lévi-Strauss uma ética e uma filosofia política (em princípio, ameríndias). Busca-se aqui a um só tempo responder e estender a provocação de Pierre Clastres, para quem a análise estrutural não teria ...
Renato Sztutman
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