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Societies, 2015 Family types continue to expand in the U.S., yet normative patterns of endogamy and the privileging of nuclear families persist. To understand how professional women of color navigate endogamy and family ideals, I draw on 40 in-depth interviews of ...
Rocio Garcia
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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 +16 more
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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 +5 more
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Large-scale diversity estimation through surname origin inference [PDF]
, 2018 The study of surnames as both linguistic and geographical markers of the past has proven valuable in several research fields spanning from biology and genetics to demography and social mobility.
Barth F +12 more
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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 +48 more
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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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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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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 +4 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 +1 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 +10 more
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