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Population stratification and genetic association studies in South Asia [PDF]

, 2005
Population stratification and its influence on genetic association studies is a controversial topic. Although it has been suggested that stratification is unlikely to bias the results of association studies conducted in developed countries, convincing ...
Bittles, A.H.
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Genetic screening of an endemic mutation in the DYSF gene in an isolated, mountainous population in the Republic of Dagestan

Molecular Genetics & Genomic Medicine, 2023
Background Dysferlinopathy has a high prevalence in relatively isolated ethnic groups where consanguineous marriages are characteristic and/or the founder effect exists.
Sergey N. Bardakov, Roman V. Deev, Аrtur А. Isaev, Nikita N. Khromov‐Borisov, Evgeniy D. Kopylov, Мaria R. Savchuk, Maxim S. Pushkin, Evgeniy V. Presnyakov, Raisat M. Magomedova, Patimat G. Achmedova, Zoya R. Umakhanova, Vladimir S. Kaimonov, Elizaveta V. Musatova, Konstantin А. Blagodatskikh, Aleksandra А. Tveleneva, Yana V. Sofronova, Ivan A. Yakovlev   +16 more
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Endogamy Marriage Tradition Of Sayyid Community In Sidenre Village, Binamu District, Jeneponto Regency

Jurnal Adabiyah, 2019
This article tried to find out some questions below, first, the way of martial processions of endogamy marriage at Binamu District of Jeneponto District. Secondly, the social impact of endogamy marriage.
Syamzan Syukur
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Genetic Diversity of Creole Sheep Managed by Indigenous Communities of the Central Region of Veracruz, Mexico

Animals, 2022
In the indigenous communities of central Veracruz, herds of creole sheep have been established and managed through traditional practices of crossing, but their genetic characteristics have never been examined in order to evaluate their state of endogamy,
Ruth Guadalupe Castillo-Rodríguez, Obdulia Lourdes Segura-León, Martha Hernández-Rodríguez, Ricardo Serna-Lagunes, Josafhat Salinas-Ruiz, Juan Salazar-Ortiz   +5 more
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Screening for Mutations in Hereditary Cancer Susceptibility Genes in a Region with High Endogamy in Brazil

Global Medical Genetics, 2023
Introduction Cancer is a multifactorial disease dependent on the influence of genetic and environmental factors. About 10% of cancers are associated with germline mutations, which predispose to a higher risk of developing cancer.
Polyanna Oliveira, Paula Correa, Angelina Acosta, Juliana Freitas, Taísa Machado-Lopes, Thais Bomfim-Palma, Ândrea Ribeiro-dos-Santos, Sidney Santos, Roberto Nascimento, Ivana Nascimento, Kiyoko Abe-Sandes   +10 more
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The regulations of honour: an attempt at a Weberian and anthropological enquiry through the prism of a Spanish trading group [PDF]

, 2006
: This paper is concerned with a rather neglected issue in sociological analysis: honour as a value and regulating principle of social life. The attempt is made to study honour from a perspective which pays attention to both the carriers of honour and ...
Frade, C
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The Missing Link of Jewish European Ancestry: Contrasting the Rhineland and the Khazarian Hypotheses [PDF]

, 2012
The question of Jewish ancestry has been the subject of controversy for over two centuries and has yet to be resolved. The "Rhineland Hypothesis" proposes that Eastern European Jews emerged from a small group of German Jews who migrated eastward and ...
Alexander, Atzmon, Balanovsky, Baron, Behar, Behar, Bonné-Tamir, Brook, Browning, Carmeli, Chakravarti, Conrad, Dinur, Dvornik, Eran Elhaik, Excoffier, Finkelstein, Gilbert, Hammer, Hitti, Koestler, Kopelman, Levy-Coffman, Li, McVean, Nebel, Novembre, Ostrer, Ostrer, Pagani, Patai, Patterson, Payaslian, Pickrell, Polak, Price, Price, Purcell, Reich, Sand, Schonberg, Shapira, Shlush, Straten, Straten, Tian, Weiss, Wexler, Zoossmann-Diskin   +48 more
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Assortative Mating by Ethnicity in Longevous Families

Frontiers in Genetics, 2017
Recent work shows strong evidence of ancestry-based assortative mating in spouse pairs of the older generation of the Framingham Heart Study. Here, we extend this analysis to two studies of human longevity: the Long Life Family Study (LLFS), and the New ...
Paola Sebastiani, Anastasia Gurinovich, Harold Bae, Stacy L. Andersen, Thomas T. Perls   +4 more
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Review: Understanding Rare Genetic Diseases in Low Resource Regions Like Jammu and Kashmir – India

Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
Rare diseases (RDs) are the clinical conditions affecting a few percentage of individuals in a general population compared to other diseases. Limited clinical information and a lack of reliable epidemiological data make their timely diagnosis and ...
Arshia Angural, Akshi Spolia, Ankit Mahajan, Vijeshwar Verma, Ankush Sharma, Parvinder Kumar, Manoj Kumar Dhar, Kamal Kishore Pandita, Kamal Kishore Pandita, Ekta Rai, Swarkar Sharma   +10 more
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Endogamy and genetic variability in selective mating using distribution of extremes

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia, 2012
The objective of this study was to evaluate selective mating using distribution of extremes, among other mating strategies, on its ability to decrease the endogamy and the loss of genetic variability.
Marcelo Jangarelli, Ricardo Frederico Euclydes   +1 more
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