Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance [PDF]
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]
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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Dental size variation in admixed Latin Americans: Effects of age, sex and genomic ancestry. [PDF]
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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Health outcomes of COVID-19 in immigrants versus native Spaniards [PDF]
Summary: 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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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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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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Support for Protests in Latin America: Classifications and the Role of Online Networking
In recent years, Latin Americans marched the streets in a wave of protests that swept almost every country in the region. Yet few studies have assessed how Latin Americans support various forms of protest, and how new technologies affect attitudes toward
Rachel R. Mourão +3 more
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ANALYSIS OF SOCIO-CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COUNTRIES OF LATIN AMERICA AND RUSSIA
The article shows the results of a sociological comparative analysis of sociocultural characteristics of the Latin Americans compared to Russia and the USA. The cultures have been studied with the help of the Hofstede’s model.
E. L. Samarina
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Latin American Christians Living in the Basque Country (Spain): What Remains and What Changes
The research we will present is based on interviews conducted with the Latin American immigrant population and the indigenous population of the Basque Autonomous Community (BAC hereafter).
Lidia Rodríguez +2 more
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Latin American Perceptions of Regional Identity and Leadership in Comparative Perspective
Public opinion plays a growing role in foreign policy formation in democratic societies. In this study, we use survey data from The Americas and the World project to establish whether Latin Americans share a common regional identity, and regard Brazil as
Janina Onuki +2 more
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