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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Incidence of dementia in elderly Latin Americans: Results of the Maracaibo Aging Study. [PDF]
Alzheimers Dement, 2018 There are few longitudinal studies of dementia in developing countries. We used longitudinal data from the Maracaibo Aging Study to accurately determine the age‐ and sex‐specific incidence of dementia in elderly Latin Americans.
Maestre GE +12 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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The color of health: skin color, ethnoracial classification, and discrimination in the health of Latin Americans. [PDF]
Soc Sci Med, 2014 Latin America is one of the most ethnoracially heterogeneous regions of the world. Despite this, health disparities research in Latin America tends to focus on gender, class and regional health differences while downplaying ethnoracial differences.
Perreira KM, Telles EE.
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Food Sources of Shortfall Nutrients among Latin Americans: Results from the Latin American Study of Health and Nutrition (ELANS) [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Rossina Pareja +2 more
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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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Disentangling Signatures of Selection Before and After European Colonization in Latin Americans [PDF]
Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2022 Kaustubh Adhikari +2 more
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