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Ancestral diversity improves discovery and fine-mapping of genetic loci for anthropometric traits—The Hispanic/Latino Anthropometry Consortium

HGG Advances, 2022
Hispanic/Latinos have been underrepresented in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) for anthropometric traits despite their notable anthropometric variability, ancestry proportions, and high burden of growth stunting and overweight/obesity.
Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, Mariaelisa Graff, Victoria L. Buchanan, Anne E. Justice, Heather M. Highland, Xiuqing Guo, Wanying Zhu, Hung-Hsin Chen, Kristin L. Young, Kaustubh Adhikari, Nicholette D. Palmer, Jennifer E. Below, Jonathan Bradfield, Alexandre C. Pereira, LáShauntá Glover, Daeeun Kim, Adam G. Lilly, Poojan Shrestha, Alvin G. Thomas, Xinruo Zhang, Minhui Chen, Charleston W.K. Chiang, Sara Pulit, Andrea Horimoto, Jose E. Krieger, Marta Guindo-Martínez, Michael Preuss, Claudia Schumann, Roelof A.J. Smit, Gabriela Torres-Mejía, Victor Acuña-Alonzo, Gabriel Bedoya, Maria-Cátira Bortolini, Samuel Canizales-Quinteros, Carla Gallo, Rolando González-José, Giovanni Poletti, Francisco Rothhammer, Hakon Hakonarson, Robert Igo, Sharon G. Adler, Sudha K. Iyengar, Susanne B. Nicholas, Stephanie M. Gogarten, Carmen R. Isasi, George Papnicolaou, Adrienne M. Stilp, Qibin Qi, Minjung Kho, Jennifer A. Smith, Carl D. Langefeld, Lynne Wagenknecht, Roberta Mckean-Cowdin, Xiaoyi Raymond Gao, Darryl Nousome, David V. Conti, Ye Feng, Matthew A. Allison, Zorayr Arzumanyan, Thomas A. Buchanan, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Pauline M. Genter, Mark O. Goodarzi, Yang Hai, Willa Hsueh, Eli Ipp, Fouad R. Kandeel, Kelvin Lam, Xiaohui Li, Jerry L. Nadler, Leslie J. Raffel, Kathryn Roll, Kevin Sandow, Jingyi Tan, Kent D. Taylor, Anny H. Xiang, Jie Yao, Astride Audirac-Chalifour, Jose de Jesus Peralta Romero, Fernando Hartwig, Bernando Horta, John Blangero, Joanne E. Curran, Ravindranath Duggirala, Donna E. Lehman, Sobha Puppala, Laura Fejerman, Esther M. John, Carlos Aguilar-Salinas, Noël P. Burtt, Jose C. Florez, Humberto García-Ortíz, Clicerio González-Villalpando, Josep Mercader, Lorena Orozco, Teresa Tusié-Luna, Estela Blanco, Sheila Gahagan, Nancy J. Cox, Craig Hanis, Nancy F. Butte, Shelley A. Cole, Anthony G. Comuzzie, V. Saroja Voruganti, Rebecca Rohde, Yujie Wang, Tamar Sofer, Elad Ziv, Struan F.A. Grant, Andres Ruiz-Linares, Jerome I. Rotter, Christopher A. Haiman, Esteban J. Parra, Miguel Cruz, Ruth J.F. Loos, Kari E. North   +115 more
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Applying biocultural research protocols in ecology: Insider and outsider experiences from Australia [PDF]

, 2022
Collaborations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous scientific researchers are increasingly mandated by global to local conservation policy and research ethics guidelines. Breakdowns occur due to misunderstandings around expected protocols of engagement
Margaret Raven, Clarke, Phillip A., Rossetto, Maurizio, Patrick Cooke, Maurizio Rossetto, Gerry Turpin, Philip A. Clarke, Emilie J. Ens, Monica Fahey, Cooke, Patrick, Raven, Margaret, Turpin, Gerald, Fahey, Monica, Ens, Emilie   +13 more
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Towards a new ethics for bioculture [PDF]

Global Bioethics, 2015
The ethics of bioculture deals with moral questions raised by the cultivation and farming of living things. P. W. Taylor believes that they have an inherent worth just like animals and wild plants. Therefore, judgment about how they should be treated cannot be limited to the principle of greater efficiency for the benefit of humans.
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Meeting Mosses: Toward a Convivial Biocultural Conservation

, 2022
In this dissertation I propose an ethical framework for "meeting mosses." At first glance, mosses are a tiny type of plants that have been uncritically understood as "primitive plants," to the extent that they are defined by negation as "non-vascular ...
Zhu, Danqiong
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Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making.

Estudios Públicos, 2021
Reseña de Vanessa Lemm de Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-Making. Minneapolis, London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019.
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Field anthropological research for context-effective risk analysis science in traditional cultures: the case of Senegal

Journal of Global Health Reports, 2020
# Background Nutritional homeostasis and health are increasingly affected by rapid nutrition transition, rapidly changing (food producing) environments and lifestyles, and increasing global formal and informal markets of consumer products. Toxicological
Chiara Frazzoli
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Variable retention harvesting: conceptual analysis according to different environmental ethics and forest valuation

Ecological Processes, 2019
Background Conceptual clarity is important to attain precise communication of scientific knowledge and to implement appropriate technological and policy actions.
Leonardo Galetto, Carolina Torres, Guillermo J. Martínez Pastur   +2 more
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Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program

, 2007
This article discusses environmental ethics and the implications for biocultural conservation and geo-cultural concepts of protected ...
Rozzi, Ricardo, 1960-, Ricardo Rozzi
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Deadly biocultures, the ethics of life-making

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2020
Deadly Biocultures is a highly original and innovative text which aims to shed light on the dual nature of neoliberal biopolitics.
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More than proteins for empty stomachs: Wild meat in the BaTonga food system

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Our paper highlights the limitations of the framework used by many conservation‐focused programmes that incorporate food security objectives. This framework encourages the substitution of wild proteins with domestic proteins by promoting animal farming in communities located near conservation areas.
Muriel Figuié, Luzibo Ottilia Munsaka, Vupenyu Dzingirai, Olivier Lepiller, Maxwell Phiri, Patrice Grimaud   +5 more
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