Comparison of allele frequencies of eight STR loci from Argentinian Amerindian and European populations.

abstract：:While discriminant function analysis is an inherently Bayesian method, researchers attempting to estimate ancestry in human skeletal samples often follow discriminant function analysis with the calculation of frequentist-based typicalities for assigning group membership. Such an approach is problematic because it fail...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Konigsberg LW,Frankenberg SR

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Sicilian population has a complex history of colonization and invasions that have influenced the genetic composition of the nine provinces of the island. Because surnames are patrilineally inherited, they simulate a Y-chromosome nonrecombinant genetic locus. We used surname data and a specific sampling strategy to...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： De Silvestri A,Guglielmino CR

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models provide a powerful tool for detecting seasonal patterns in mortality statistics. The strength of ARIMA models lies in their ability to reveal complex structures of temporal interdependence in time series. Moreover, changes in model parameters provide an empirical...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Muñoz-Tudurí M,García-Moro C,Walker PL

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Buryat population consisting of seven tribal groups in eastern Mongolia has been screened to determine the frequency distribution of different apolipoprotein E and H alleles (APOE and APOH, genes) coding for common isoforms and their association with quantitative plasma lipid levels. Allele frequencies at the APOE l...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Tsunoda K,Harihara S,Dashnyam B,Semjidmaa D,Yamaguchi Y,Tanabe Y,Sakai N,Sato A,Sato K

更新日期：2002-10-01 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：: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：: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

abstract：:Birth weight is the single most significant determinant of infant mortality and the chances of a newborn to experience healthy development. Low birth weight also appears to be related to higher risks of several important chronic conditions, such as ischemic heart disease, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, and cancer in ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Chodick G,Flash S,Deoitch Y,Shalev V

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In one of the truly classic works in anthropological genetics, Frank Livingstone established the interrelationships between agriculture, mosquito ecology, malaria, and, consequently, the frequencies of sickle cell hemoglobin in West Africa. A major inference from Livingstone's study was the recency of malaria as a sel...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Fix AG

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) at codons 2488 (XbaI), 3611 (MspI), and 4154 (EcoRI) of the apolipoprotein B gene were investigated in sample groups from Athens (Greece) and Calabria (southern Italy) to verify whether the distribution of the APOB gene variants in Calabria, where Greek colonization oc...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： De Benedictis G,Leone O,Falcone E,Rose G,Brancati C,Carotenuto L

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy individuals from two African and four black Brazilian populations were studied for the first hypervariable segment of mtDNA. To delineate a more complete phylogeographic scenario of the African mtDNA haplogroups in Brazil and to provide additional information on the nature of the Atlantic slave trade, we analy...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Silva WA,Bortolini MC,Schneider MP,Marrero A,Elion J,Krishnamoorthy R,Zago MA

更新日期：2006-02-01 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：:Craniofacial variation is investigated in Latin America and the Caribbean. The samples included in this study are two historic and one prehistoric sample from Ecuador; prehistoric and modern Cuban samples; a prehistoric Peruvian sample; two prehistoric Mexican samples and one contemporary admixed Mexican sample; a 16t...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Ross AH,Ubelaker DH,Falsetti AB

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:4 ethnically, cultural-historically and linguistically distinct subsets of the Sells Reservation Papago population of southern Arizona are identified using ethnographic and demographic data. Breeding patterns of these 4 isolates are described and compared with fertility and mortality parameters. Isolates which exper...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Smith DG

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roots of the Hispanic populations of the Caribbean Islands and Central and South America go back to three continents of the Old World. In Puerto Rico major genetic contributions have come from (1) Asians in the form of the aboriginal Taino population, an Arawak tribe, present when Columbus arrived on the Island, (...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Fernandez-Cobo M,Jobes DV,Yanagihara R,Nerurkar VR,Yamamura Y,Ryschkewitsch CF,Stoner GL

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:The 657del5 mutation of the NBS1 gene has been demonstrated in most patients with Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS). We identified four Turkish families in which probands were diagnosed as having NBS and found to be homozygous for the 657del5 mutation. The 657del5 allele in the four Turkish families had a single origin...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Tekin M,Akcayoz D,Ucar C,Gulen H,Akar N

更新日期：2005-06-01 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：:The Comorian population is historically considered a blend of influences from African Bantus, Arabs, and possibly Austronesians. In this study we present the first genetic data on the current Comorian population. Serologic analysis of the six major blood group systems (ABO, RH, KEL, FY, JK, and MNS) was performed on 1...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Chiaroni J,Touinssi M,Frassati C,Degioanni A,Gibert M,Reviron D,Mercier P,Boëtsch G

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fertility pattern, in terms of birth intervals, in a rural population not practicing contraception belonging to La Alta Alpujarra Oriental (southeast Spain) is analyzed. During the first half of the 20th century, this population experienced a considerable degree of geographical and cultural isolation. Because of t...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Polo V,Luna F,Fuster V

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reanalysis of the family growth study of Pearson and Lee (1903) leads to an explanation of the inheritance of height other than the one that has been offered until now. By acknowledging that the father may be incorrectly identified, this new analysis provides a more relevant explanation of the data: it fits parallel...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Clemons T

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent cloning of RH genes has elucidated their structure, suggesting that RH proteins are part of an oligomeric complex with transport function in the erythrocyte. This observation prompted us to investigate a possible relationship between the RH system and the glycosylated hemoglobin level (Hb A(1c)) in diabetes. Th...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Gloria-Bottini F,Antonacci E,Bottini N,Ogana A,Borgiani P,De Santis G,Lucarini N

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA profiles of two unrelated individuals can match (complete similarity) by chance alone. When the two individuals are related, the probability of a coincidental match is higher. Here, I deal with the probabilities of coincidental matches for both related and unrelated individuals. The derivation starts from firs...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Li CC

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatoglyphic traits have been used to assess population affinities and structure. Here, we describe the digital patterns of four Eskimo populations from Alaska: two Yupik-speaking villages from St. Lawrence Island and two Inupik groups presently residing on mainland Alaska. For a broader evolutionary perspective, th...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Crawford MH,Duggirala R

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The theoretical literature on human population dispersal processes at the large time and space scale is reviewed, including references to and discussions of relevant empirical data. The basic Fisher-KPP reaction-diffusion system is summarized for the single population situation, and developments relating to the Allee ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Steele J

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although much attention has been given to statistical genetic methods for the initial localization and fine mapping of quantitative trait loci (QTLs), little methodological work has been done to date on the problem of statistically identifying the most likely functional polymorphisms using sequence data. In this paper...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Blangero J,Goring HH,Kent JW Jr,Williams JT,Peterson CP,Almasy L,Dyer TD

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was predicted that at the state level early neonatal (0-6 days) mortality rates and rates for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in the age range 7-364 days would be negatively correlated. Using published data for each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia over the 5-year period 1980-1984, the actual corre...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Spiers PS

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:"Pygmy populations" are recognized in several places over the world, especially in Western Africa and in Southeast Asia (Philippine "negritos," for instance). Broadly defined as "small-bodied Homo sapiens" (compared with neighboring populations), their origins and the nature of the processes involved in the maintenanc...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Détroit F,Corny J,Dizon EZ,Mijares AS

更新日期：2013-02-01 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：:We have analyzed single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the XPC, XPA, and XPG genes of the nucleotide excision repair (NER) pathway in the Indian population. In the XPC gene we observed nine polymorphisms in the coding region, four polymorphisms in the intronic region, and two polymorphisms in the 5' untranslated r...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Gowda S,Kumaran M,Suma BS,Rao MR

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00