Identification of Whole Mitochondrial Genomes from Venezuela and Implications on Regional Phylogenies in South America.

abstract：:We summarize the results of a field and laboratory research program (1999-2006) in the Aleutian Islands on the origins of the inhabitants of the archipelago and the genetic structure of these populations. The Aleuts show closest genetic affinity to the contemporary Siberian Eskimos and Chukchi of Chukotka and differ s...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Crawford MH,Rubicz RC,Zlojutro M

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied 3925 individuals in 961 families to determine the mode of inheritance of overweight. As an index of overweight, we examined body mass index. Our analyses indicate that the most likely genetic model for susceptibility to overweight included moderate polygenic inheritance (34% of variance resulting from many ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Price RA,Ness R,Laskarzewski P

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monthly distribution of live births were analyzed over a 26-year period from 1945-70 for a rural Zapotec-speaking community in Oaxaca, Mexico. Monthly distributions of births were not what would be expected by chance (p.001). High monthly percentages of births coincided closely with the rainy season in the Oaxac...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Malina RM,Himes JH

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although anthropometric information on South American Indian populations has been collected for many years, remarkably little is known about age-related changes in their body size in adulthood. The lack of baseline information on the normal pattern of aging among Amerindian adults hinders investigations into the healt...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Dangour AD

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytochrome 1A1 (CYP1A1), glutathione transferase M1 (GSTM1), and glutathione transferase T1 (GSTT1) catalyze the bioactivation and detoxification of a wide variety of xenobiotic compounds that are mutagenic and/or carcinogenic (e.g., polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). Genetic polymorphisms of these metabolizing enzyme...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Pérez-Morales R,Castro-Hernández C,Gonsebatt ME,Rubio J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several epidemiological studies have established that elevated serum lipoprotein (a) [Lp(a)] levels are independent risk factors for coronary heart disease, stroke, and restenosis of coronary lesions in white and Asian populations. Serum Lp(a) levels vary over a 1000-fold range among individuals and are under strict g...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Ali S,Bunker CH,Aston CE,Ukoli FA,Kamboh MI

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To determine the origin of sickle cell mutation in different ethnic groups living in southern Iran, we studied the haplotype background of the betaS and betaA genes in subjects from the provinces of Fars, Khuzestan, Bushehr, Hormozgan, and Kerman and from the islands of Khark and Qeshm. beta-globin gene cluster haplot...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Rahimi Z,Merat A,Gerard N,Krishnamoorthy R,Nagel RL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Relatives may tend to die of the same cause. A model is proposed specifying the degree of this association, simultaneously allowing for misclassification of cause of death. These mistakes usually degrade any existing correlation structure, the effects being marked when error rates reach between 20% to 30%. It is then ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Tallis GM

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I describe the developmental, metric, morphologic, and pathologic features of deciduous dentition in a terminal Late Archaic (c. 3000 B.P.) Native American population in Ohio. Development of deciduous dentition in this Late Archaic population is stable with little sequence variation. The pattern of development (ldc, l...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Sciulli PW

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mismatch distribution is a tabulation of the number of pairwise differences among all DNA sequences in a sample. In a population that has been stationary for a long time these distributions from nonrecombinant DNA sequences become ragged and erratic, whereas a population that has been growing generates mismatch dist...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Harpending HC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth is a complex process composed of distinct phases over the course of childhood. Although the pubertal growth spurt has received the most attention from auxologists and pediatricians, the midchildhood growth spurt has been less well studied. The midchildhood growth spurt refers to a relatively small increase in g...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Towne B,Williams KD,Blangero J,Czerwinski SA,Demerath EW,Nahhas RW,Dyer TD,Cole SA,Lee M,Choh AC,Duren DL,Sherwood RJ,Chumlea WC,Siervogel RM

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hematocrit values are normally higher in natives living at high altitude than in natives living at sea level. Here, we have determined the hematocrit levels in relation to adrenal androgens in children living at altitudes of 150 m and 3400 m above sea level. The data demonstrate no association between serum adrenal an...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Góñez C,Donayre M,Villena A,Gonzales GF

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isoelectric focusing was used to investigate the genetic variants of the human plasma orosomucoid ORM1 and ORM2 gene loci in samples of Egyptians, Sudanese, and Qataris. The study populations were classified into 28 ORM phenotypes determined by 10 ORM1 and 9 ORM2 alleles that included 2 new alleles, designated ORM1*B1...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Sebetan IM,Oshida S,Yuasa I,Tie J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper I propose that evolutionary demography and associated theory from human behavioral ecology provide a strong basis for explaining the available evidence for the patterns observed in the first agricultural settlement of Europe in the 7th-5th millennium cal. BC, linking together a variety of what have previ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Shennan S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CYP2A6 is a polymorphic enzyme, and CYP2A6 genotype has been shown to be associated with smoking habits and lung cancer. We investigated CYP2A6 polymorphism in Japanese from four different geographic areas of Japan and in the Ovambo and Turk populations. Using two polymerase chain reaction restriction fragment length ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Takeshita H,Hieda Y,Fujihara J,Xue Y,Nakagami N,Takayama K,Imamura S,Kataoka K

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This address is a tribute to a pioneer of population genetics, including human population genetics. The unique methodology employed by Sewall Wright in many genetic problems is the method of path coefficients. This essay traces the historical landmarks in the development of the path method and then shows how some of t...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Li CC

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipoprotein lipase (LPL) plays a critical role in the metabolism of lipoproteins because this enzyme hydrolyzes the triacylglycerides in chylomicrons and very low density lipoproteins. This process influences the production of high-density lipoprotein (HDL), which takes up tissue cholesterol for transport to the liver...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Mitchell RJ,Earl L,Bray P,Fripp YJ,Williams J

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human populations have a complex history of introgression and of changing population size. Human genetic variation has been affected by both these processes, so inference of past population size depends upon the pattern of gene flow and introgression among past populations. One remarkable aspect of human population hi...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Hawks J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human hair has been commonly classified according to three conventional ethnic human subgroups, that is, African, Asian, and European. Such broad classification hardly accounts for the high complexity of human biological diversity, resulting from both multiple and past or recent mixed origins. The research reported he...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： De la Mettrie R,Saint-Léger D,Loussouarn G,Garcel A,Porter C,Langaney A

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A central problem in research on twins is the estimation of the rates of monozygotic and dizygotic twin maternities. The estimation usually follows Weinberg's differential rule. According to this rule, the rate of dizygotic twinning is twice the rate of twin maternities in which the twins are of opposite sex. The mono...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Fellman J,Eriksson AW

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the relationship between the dispersal potential of a hominin population, its local-scale foraging strategies, and the characteristics of the resource environment using an agent-based modeling approach. In previous work we demonstrated that natural selection can favor a relatively low capacity for asse...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Wren CD,Costopoulos A

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controversies resulting from genetic testing on skeletal remains of disputed stewardship raise important questions about obligations inherent on genetic researchers to assure ethical chain of custody. In this article, we analyze and evaluate several proposed positions on whether such research should be published. Foll...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： May T,Nakano-Okuno M

更新日期：2019-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated differential sex-biased parental investment in relation to social status in 59 Kavango males from Rundu, the administrative and commercial center of the Kavango district in northern Namibia, and in 78 Kavango males from the rural areas around Rundu. Twenty-three body dimensions were used as indicators ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Kirchengast S,Winkler EM

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To verify the possibility that the Y-chromosome C3* star-cluster attributed to Genghis Khan and his patrilineal descendants is relatively frequent in the Kereys, who are the dominant clan in Kazakhstan and in Central Asia as a whole, polymorphism of the Y-chromosome was studied in Kazakhs, represented mostly by member...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Abilev S,Malyarchuk B,Derenko M,Wozniak M,Grzybowski T,Zakharov I

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge of a population structure may constitute a powerful tool for mapping genes underlying susceptibility to Mendelian and complex diseases. To obtain a better understanding of the population structure of São Miguel Island (Azorean Archipelago, Portugal), we carried out a surname survey using the surnames lis...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Branco CC,Mota-Vieira L

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relation between TaqI restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) gene and plasma lipid and lipoprotein phenotypes was investigated in a sample of Italian and Greek migrants of both sexes, age 40-69 years. Italians display significantly higher mean triglycerid...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Mitchell RJ,Earl L,Williams J,Bisucci T,Gasiamis H

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is widespread interest in obtaining genetic samples from human populations worldwide for various studies of human genetic diversity. Many samples exist today only in the form of small, rare, irreplaceable, or archival samples, such as material from ancient bone, hair bulbs, or remnants of samples collected in th...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Weiss KM,Buchanan AV,Daniel C,Stoneking M

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When sampling locations are known, the association between genetic and geographic distances can be tested by spatial autocorrelation or regression methods. These tests give some clues to the possible shape of the genetic landscape. Nevertheless, correlation analyses fail when attempting to identify where genetic barri...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Manni F,Guérard E,Heyer E

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blood glucose levels of pregnant women with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus and the blood glucose levels of newborns during the first few hours of life show an association with maternal Rh genotype. Distortions of joint maternal-fetal Rh phenotype distribution have also been observed. Because a cluster of gene...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Gloria-Bottini F,Gerlini G,Amante A,Pascone R,Bottini E

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of "pygmy" or pygmoid groups among New Guinea populations has been the object of scientific interest since the end of the nineteenth century. Morphological and molecular data are used here to study western New Guinea population variability, focusing in particular on two pygmoid groups living in the easter...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Tommaseo-Ponzetta M,Mona S,Calabrese F,Konrad G,Vacca E,Attimonelli M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00