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Latin Americans show wide-spread Converso ancestry and imprint of local Native ancestry on physical appearance

open access: yesNature 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
doaj   +1 more source

A Prospective Study of Individuals at Risk of Multiple Sclerosis Informs the Design of Primary Prevention Studies

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective In multiple sclerosis, the optimal time for deploying a therapeutic intervention is before the central nervous system is damaged; given the success of trials treating the earliest stage of MS, the radiologically isolated syndrome, developing primary prevention strategies is an important next challenge.
Amy W. Laitinen   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Eating Attitudes of Native American and African American Women: Differences by Race and Acculturation [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
Thirty-tour Native American and twenty-eight African American women responded to eating disorders and acculturation measures. African Americans appeared to have greater concern about their body weight and shape than Native Americans. Among all, those who
Osvold, Lise L.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Epilepsy‐Associated Variants of a Single SCN1A Codon Exhibit Divergent Functional Properties

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Pathogenic variants in SCN1A, which encodes the voltage‐gated sodium channel NaV1.1, are associated with multiple epilepsy syndromes exhibiting a range of clinical severity. SCN1A variants are reported in different syndromes, including Dravet syndrome, which is associated with loss‐of‐function, whereas neonatal/infantile‐onset ...
Lanie N. Liebovitz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

[Review of] Richard Drinnon. Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Meyer and American Racism [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
While American history is replete with outrageous and tragic examples of racism, two of the most prominent in recent memory are the government\u27s World War II removal and internment of Japanese Americans and its postwar attack on the tribal rights and ...
Endo, Russell
core   +1 more source

Differences in Prenatal Tobacco Exposure Patterns among 13 Race/Ethnic Groups in California. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Prenatal tobacco exposure is a significant, preventable cause of childhood morbidity, yet little is known about exposure risks for many race/ethnic subpopulations.
Aldous, Kenneth M   +8 more
core   +1 more source

Dementia Incidence in Individuals With Parkinson's Disease in the Framingham Heart Study

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Limited information exists on incident dementia in individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD) in US community‐based samples. We examined cognitive statuses and PD diagnoses of 183 individuals in the Framingham Heart Study (FHS) to establish incident dementia, mortality rates, associations with sex, age at PD onset, and education level.
Joshi Dookhy   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Foundation Funding for Native American Issues and Peoples [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Over the past decade, U.S. foundation support benefiting Native Americans declined from 0.5 percent to 0.3 percent of total foundation giving. According to Foundation Funding for Native American Issues and Peoples, total grant dollars targeting Native ...
Reina Mukai, Steven Lawrence
core  

Preferences for Posttraumatic Osteoarthritis Prevention Strategies in Individuals With Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury

open access: yesArthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective There is growing interest in evaluating new strategies to delay or prevent posttraumatic osteoarthritis (PTOA) in individuals who have sustained anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury. This study sought to determine characteristics of potential treatments that are acceptable to patients with ACL injury. Methods Participants with a history of
Kevin Kennedy   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetic evidence for a contribution of Native Americans to the early settlement of Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

open access: yesFrontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2016
Available evidence strongly suggests that the first to settle on Rapa Nui were Polynesians arriving from the west around AD 1200-1253. There are, however, also signs of an early contact between Rapa Nui and South America, but genetic evidence of an early
Erik Thorsby
doaj   +1 more source

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