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High prevalence of simian foamy virus infection of South American Indians. [PDF]

PLoS Pathogens
Simian foamy viruses (SFV) are retroviruses that widely infect nonhuman primates of New and Old-World origin and exhibit long-standing co-evolution with their hosts.
William M Switzer, HaoQiang Zheng, Cláudia P Muniz, Yi Pan, Hongwei Jia, Shaohua Tang, Anupama Shankar, Roxana Cintron, Jan Drobeniuc, Marcelo A Soares, Walid Heneine   +10 more
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Indian South Africans as a middleman minority: Historical and contemporary perspectives

Contree, 2022
Beginning in the 1940s, a literature on middleman minorities emerged to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe. They were viewed as ethnic entrepreneurs occupying the economic status gap.
Vernon D. Johnson
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Arrival of Paleo-Indians to the Southern Cone of South America: New Clues from Mitogenomes [PDF]

, 2012
With analyses of entire mitogenomes, studies of Native American mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation have entered the final phase of phylogenetic refinement: the dissection of the founding haplogroups into clades that arose in America during and after ...
Achilli, Alessandro, Angerhofer, Norman, Bodner, Martin, Corach, Daniel, de Saint Pierre, Michelle, Gandini, Francesca, Gómez-Carballa, Alberto, Moraga, Mauricio, Olivieri, Anna, Parson, Walther, Perego, Ugo A., Salas, Antonio, Semino, Ornella, Torroni, Antonio, Woodward, Scott R.   +14 more
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Barriers of Female Breast, Colorectal, and Cervical Cancer Screening Among American Indians—Where to Intervene?

AIMS Public Health, 2016
Female breast, colorectal, and cervical cancer are three common cancers among people in the United States. Both their incidence and mortality rates can be dramatically reduced if effective prevention and intervention programs are developed and ...
Yan Lin, Xi Gong, Richard Mousseau
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Latin American Indians through Dialogue and Speech Acts in the Travel of Alexander von Humboldt

Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2019
When Humboldt traveled through Latin America, many indigenous languages were still spoken despite three centuries of European colonialism. While Alexander von Humboldt explores geography and analyzes the Native South American languages, he also takes ...
Adrián Herrera
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Ethnic differences in adiposity and diabetes risk – insights from genetic studies [PDF]

, 2020
Type 2 diabetes is more common in non-Europeans and starts at a younger age and at lower BMI cut-offs. This review discusses the insights from genetic studies about pathophysiological mechanisms which determine risk of disease with a focus on the role of
Bell, J.D., Bell, J.D., Thomas, E.L., Thomas, E.L., Whitcher, B., Whitcher, B., Yaghootkar, H., Yaghootkar, H.   +7 more
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Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South

Ethnobiology Letters, 2010
Review of Spirits of the Air: Birds and American Indians in the South. Shepard Krech III. 2009. University of Georgia Press, Athens. Pp. 245, copiously illustrated. $44.95 (hardbound). ISBN-13 978-0-8203-2815-7.
E. N. Anderson
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Prevalence of antibodies against hepatitis A virus among the Kuikuro and Kaiabi Indians of Xingu National Park, Brazil Prevalência de anticorpos contra o vírus da hepatite A entre os índios Kuikuro e Kaiabi do Parque Indígena do Xingu, Brasil

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2007
A seroprevalence study to detect total antibodies against Hepatitis A Virus was done with 220 samples from 589 Native Indians from Xingu National Park, Brazil, in five Kaiabi and Kuikuro villages, the most populous ethnic groups.
Manuel Mindlin Lafer, Maria Isabel de Moraes-Pinto, Lily Yin Weckx   +2 more
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Diabetic retinopathy among Brazilian Xavante Indians

Diabetology & Metabolic Syndrome, 2018
Background To describe the frequency of diabetic retinopathy (DR) and its associated variables in Brazilian Xavante Indians. Methods A population-based survey carried out in two Xavante Reservations between 2008 and 2012, included 948 Indians aged 20 ...
Carlos Gustavo M. G. Lima, Laercio Joel Franco, Amaury L. Dal Fabbro, Edson Z. Martinez, João Paulo Botelho Veira-Filho, Alexandre A. C. M. Ventura, Leonardo Prevelato, Antonio Augusto V. Cruz   +7 more
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Prevalence of Obesity and Overweight in an Indigenous Population in Central Brazil: A Population-Based Cross-Sectional Study

Obesity Facts, 2015
Objective: To estimate the prevalence of obesity and overweight and associated factors in indigenous people of the Jaguapiru village in Central Brazil. Methods: We conducted a population-based cross-sectional study between January 2009 and July 2011 in ...
Geraldo F. Oliveira, Teresinha Regina R. Oliveira, Adauto T. Ikejiri, Tais F. Galvao, Marcus T. Silva, Mauricio G. Pereira   +5 more
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