Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2018 Latin Americans trace their ancestry to the admixture of Native Americans, Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans. Here, the authors develop a novel haplotype-based approach and analyse over 6,500 Latin Americans to infer the geographically-detailed genetic ...
Juan-Camilo Chacón-Duque +49 more
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A GWAS in Latin Americans highlights the convergent evolution of lighter skin pigmentation in Eurasia [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2019 Pigmentation variation in humans is influenced by complex genetic architecture in different populations. Here, the authors perform a genome-wide association analysis involving > 6,000 Latin Americans for pigmentation of skin and eyes, and identify known ...
Kaustubh Adhikari +31 more
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A GWAS in Latin Americans identifies novel face shape loci, implicating VPS13B and a Denisovan introgressed region in facial variation. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2021 We carried out a genome-wide association study in Latin Americans and identified novel face morphology loci.. To characterize the genetic basis of facial features in Latin Americans, we performed a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of more than 6000 ...
Bonfante B +53 more
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Dental size variation in admixed Latin Americans: Effects of age, sex and genomic ancestry. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2023 Dental size variation in modern humans has been assessed from regional to worldwide scales, especially under microevolutionary and forensic contexts.
Guangrui Yang +18 more
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A genome-wide association scan in admixed Latin Americans identifies loci influencing facial and scalp hair features. [PDF]
Nat Commun, 2016 We report a genome-wide association scan in over 6,000 Latin Americans for features of scalp hair (shape, colour, greying, balding) and facial hair (beard thickness, monobrow, eyebrow thickness).
Adhikari K +35 more
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To what extent do Latin Americans trust and cooperate? Field experiments on social exclusion in six Latin American countries [PDF]
, 2008 This paper explores the extent to which individuals trust, reciprocate, cooperate and pool risk by using a battery of field experiments containing the trust game, the voluntary contributions mechanism and the risk pooling game; applied in six capital ...
Chong, Alberto +2 more
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Secret Agent for International Maoism: José Venturelli, Chinese Informal Diplomacy and Latin American Maoism [PDF]
Radical Americas, 2016 The Chilean artist José Venturelli was a supporter of Maoist China. This article, a brief political biography of Venturelli, shows how he acted on behalf of the People’s Republic of China’s informal diplomacy among Latin Americans and worked to promote ...
Rothwell, Matthew
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Health outcomes of COVID-19 in immigrants versus native Spaniards [PDF]
Journal of Migration and HealthSummary: Background: During the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the differential impact on ethnic groups has been widely debated. This study examines the immigrant population of Fuenlabrada, Spain, analyzing their infection, hospitalization, ICU admission, and ...
Jose Manuel Ruiz Giardin +9 more
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Transnational citizenship: Latin Americans in Portugal [PDF]
Revista CIDOB d'Afers Internacionals, 2014 This article is a reflection upon the exercising of transnational citizenship as a consequence of international migration, applied to Latin Americans resident in Portugal.
Beatriz Padilla +1 more
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Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2021 Community engagement is important for reaching vulnerable populations in the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A risk communication framework was implemented by a community-engaged research (CEnR) partnership in Southeast Minnesota to address
Mark L. Wieland +10 more
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