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Analysis of Heritability Across the Clinical Phenotypes of Frontotemporal Dementia and the Frequency of the C9ORF72 in a Colombian Population

Frontiers in Neurology, 2021
Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is a highly heritable condition. Up to 40% of FTD is familial and an estimated 15% to 40% is due to single-gene mutations. It has been estimated that the G4C2 hexanucleotide repeat expansions in the C9ORF72 gene can explain ...
Andrea López-Cáceres, Andrea López-Cáceres, María Velasco-Rueda, Elkin Garcia-Cifuentes, Ignacio Zarante, Diana Matallana, Diana Matallana, Diana Matallana   +7 more
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The Ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu. Exploring continuities and variations in forms, meanings and contexts through ethnographic sources

Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo, 2022
In this paper I review and compare the main sources of information about the ka’ulayawaa festivals among the Wayùu, an Amerindian people inhabiting in the semiarid Guajira peninsula (Northern Colombia and Venezuela).
Alessandro Mancuso
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Between the good savage and the cannibal: representations of Amerindians in mid-20th century Brazilian children’s literature

, 2013
O presente artigo apresenta uma reflexão sobre o modo como são construídas representações de índio nas obras de ficção infantil que circularam de forma expressiva entre 1945-1965, considerado o terceiro período histórico da literatura infantil brasileira.
Bonin, Iara Tatiana, Kirchof, Edgar Roberto   +1 more
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Genetic differences between Mestizo populations of Bolivia and Peru

Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2003
Data on the genetic background of Peruvian and Bolivian populations is still scarce. Studies have shown that mestizos (i.e. mixed, but of predominantly Native American ancestry) present several HLA alleles originally described in genetically isolated ...
Jorge Cervantes
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G6PD deficiency in Latin America: systematic review on prevalence and variants

Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, 2014
Plasmodium vivax radical cure requires the use of primaquine (PQ), a drug that induces haemolysis in glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficient (G6PDd) individuals, which further hampers malaria control efforts.
Wuelton M Monteiro, Fernando FA Val, André M Siqueira, Gabriel P Franca, Vanderson S Sampaio, Gisely C Melo, Anne CG Almeida, Marcelo AM Brito, Henry M Peixoto, Douglas Fuller, Quique Bassat, Gustavo AS Romero, Oliveira Maria Regina F, Lacerda Marcus Vinícius G   +13 more
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

AN INTERAMERICAN COMPARATIVE INTERPRETATION OF AMERINIDIAN LITERATURE

Revista Brasileira de Literatura Comparada, 2020
In her last book, Rita Olivieri-Godet unveils the voices of Amerindian women in Brazilian and Quebec literature, elaborating an in-depth and sensitive reflection on the work of two female indigenous writers from Brazil and two from Quebec.
ZILA BERND
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Public policy reforms and indigenous forest governance: The case of the Yuracaré people in Bolivia

Conservation & Society, 2012
The recent surge in the efforts to reform forest governance-both through decentralisation and tenure reforms-has been coupled by an increase in empirical studies that assess the virtues and limitations of the new regimes.
Rosario León, Patricia Uberhuaga, Jean Paul Benavides, Krister Andersson   +3 more
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Phenotypes and clinical outcomes in children with moderate‐to‐severe atopic dermatitis across diverse ancestries: a Spanish multicenter observational study and cluster analysis (AD‐SKINS Project)

JDDG: Journal der Deutschen Dermatologischen Gesellschaft, EarlyView.
Summary Background and Objectives Atopic dermatitis (AD) has a highly variable clinical phenotype and ancestry can contribute to this heterogeneity. This study aims to identify clinical phenotypes of AD in children from diverse ancestry groups, evaluate clinical outcomes and response to treatment, and define phenotypic clusters with potential relevance.
Eugeni Prat‐Colilles, Adrià Plana‐Pla, Asunción Vicente, Eulàlia Baselga, Helena Iznardo, Esther Roé, Miquel Casals‐Andreu, Maria Sin‐Soler, Josep A. Pujol‐Montcusí, Maria del Mar Cordellat‐Martínez, Xavier Soria‐Gili, Maria del Mar Tapias‐Terré, Marta Bertolin‐Colilla, Nidia Planella‐Fontanillas, Laura Marques‐Martín, Mónica Munera‐Campos, Maria Fabregat‐Pratdepadua, Carolina S. Prat‐Torres, Marta Ivars, Luisa F. Montenegro‐Morillo, Isabel Bielsa‐Marsol, Jose‐Manuel Carrascosa‐Carrillo   +21 more
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Kant's Metaphysics of Race, Its Distinctiveness, and Its Normativity

Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on the contemporary taxonomy of the metaphysics of race, this paper shows that Kant's theory of race occupies a distinct metaphysical position on race. Second, it argues that Kant's metaphysics of race inherently produces racist claims.
Reza Mosayebi
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