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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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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Colombia Internacional, 2023 Objective/Context: The economic, political and military relations between the People’s Republic of China and Latin America have grown exponentially since the beginning of the 21st century.
Lorenzo Maggiorelli +2 more
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