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What Motivates Mixed Heritage People to Assert Their Ancestries?
Genealogy, 2022 Research on mixed heritage people has often focused on their reported race(s) and what these self-reports may reveal about their racial leanings. In the U.S., people are also asked: “What is this person’s ancestry or ethnic origin?” as a census fill-in ...
Miri Song, Carolyn Liebler
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 Supervised clustering or projection analysis is a staple technique in population genetic analysis. The utility of this technique depends critically on the reference panel.
Daniel Shriner
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Frontiers in Medicine, 2023 Background and aimsLatin American populations remain underrepresented in genetic studies of inflammatory bowel diseases (IBDs). Most genetic association studies of IBD rely on Caucasian, African, and Asian individuals.
Tamara Pérez-Jeldres +26 more
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Phenotypic variance explained by local ancestry in admixed African Americans
Frontiers in Genetics, 2015 We surveyed 26 quantitative traits and disease outcomes to understand the proportion of phenotypic variance explained by local ancestry in admixed African Americans. After inferring local ancestry as the number of African-ancestry chromosomes at hundreds
Daniel eShriner +6 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2016 The debate as to whether Jewishness is a biological trait inherent from an authentic Jewish type (jüdische Typus) ancestor or a system of beliefs has been raging for over two centuries.
Eran Elhaik
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Biorrevelações: testes de ancestralidade genética em perspectiva antropológica comparada
Horizontes Antropológicos, 2011 É cada vez maior o número de empresas que comercializam testes de ancestralidade genética a partir do DNA, sobretudo, na América do Norte. Tal fenômeno tem atraído a atenção das ciências sociais, em particular da antropologia.
Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto +1 more
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Does the concept of genetic ancestry reinforce racism?
TATuP – Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, 2021 Genetic ancestry is seen as an alternative to the problematic concept of race and is positioned against abusive racist and nationalist perspectives. The concept of genetic ancestry is nevertheless not free of racial categorizations.
Stefan Burmeister
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2018 Human exposure to mercury is a serious problem of public health in Amazon. As in other vulnerable populations throughout the world, Amazonian riverine populations are chronically exposed to this metal and some symptoms of mercury intoxication were ...
Gabriela P. F. Arrifano +15 more
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Identification of New Helicobacter pylori Subpopulations in Native Americans and Mestizos From Peru
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 Region-specific Helicobacter pylori subpopulations have been identified. It is proposed that the hspAmerind subpopulation is being displaced from the Americans by an hpEurope population following the conquest.
Andrés Julián Gutiérrez-Escobar +20 more
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The genomic consequences of hybridization
eLife, 2021 In the past decade, advances in genome sequencing have allowed researchers to uncover the history of hybridization in diverse groups of species, including our own.
Benjamin M Moran +5 more
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