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：: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 major histocompatibility complex is directly involved in the immune response, and thus the genes coding for its proteins are useful markers for the study of genetic diversity, susceptibility to disease (autoimmunity and infections), transplant medicine, and pharmacogenetics, among others. The polymorphism of the s...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Cortés EDJ,Sieck MAC,Perea AJA,Medrano RMM,Jaime AB,Martínez PE,Zúñiga J,Alonzo VA,Granados J,Barquera R

更新日期：2017-07-01 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：:We present the most comprehensive genetic characterization to date of five Fijian island populations: Viti Levu, Vanua Levu, Kadavu, the Lau Islands, and Rotuma, including nonrecombinant Y (NRY) chromosome and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplotypes and haplogroups. As a whole, Fijians are genetically intermediate betwee...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Shipley GP,Taylor DA,N'Yeurt ADR,Tyagi A,Tiwari G,Redd AJ

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Large-scale genotyping and next-generation sequencing techniques have allowed great advances in the field of molecular genetics. Numerous common variants of low impact have been associated with many complex human traits and diseases, such as bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. Although they may exert a greater impact ...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Lopes FL,Hou L,Boldt AB,Kassem L,Alves VM,Nardi AE,McMahon FJ

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Osteometric measurements of the femur are consistently used to estimate stature, sex, and race in constructing demographic profiles. The presence of positive or negative changes in the size of the maximum vertical diameter of the femoral head could potentially affect the validity of such profiles. Additionally, change...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Cridlin S

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Models that examine genetic differences between populations alongside a genotype-phenotype map can provide insight about phenotypic variation among groups. We generalize a simple model of a completely heritable, additive, selectively neutral quantitative trait to examine the relationship between single-locus genetic d...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Edge MD,Rosenberg NA

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Recent studies have expanded and refined the founding haplogroups of the Americas using whole mitochondrial (mtDNA) genome analysis. In addition to pan-American lineages, specific variants have been identified in a number of studies that show higher frequencies in restricted geographical areas. To further characterize...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Lee EJ,Merriwether DA

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although scattered throughout a large geographic area, the members of the Pano linguistic group present strong ethnic, linguistic, and cultural homogeneity, a feature that causes them to be considered components of a same "Pano" tribe. Nevertheless, the genetic homogeneity between Pano villages has not yet been examin...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Mendes-Junior CT,Simoes AL

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article deals with the problem of the causes of the variation of sex ratio (proportion male) at birth. This problem is common to a number of areas in biology and medicine, for example, obstetrics, neurology/psychiatry, parasitology, virology, oncology, and teratology. It is established that there are signifi cant...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： James WH

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article examines the utility of the ischium-pubic index (IPI), a sexing technique that compares the lengths of pubis and ischium. The ratio was adapted by Washburn from a primate index devised by Schultz and was tested by Washburn on documented remains from the Hamann-Todd Human Osteological Collection. The IPI i...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Drew R

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：: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：:A recent workshop entitled "The Family Name as Socio-Cultural Feature and Genetic Metaphor: From Concepts to Methods" was held in Paris in December 2010, sponsored by the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and by the journal Human Biology. This workshop was intended to foster a debate on questions r...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Darlu P,Bloothooft G,Boattini A,Brouwer L,Brouwer M,Brunet G,Chareille P,Cheshire J,Coates R,Dräger K,Desjardins B,Hanks P,Longley P,Mandemakers K,Mateos P,Pettener D,Useli A,Manni F

更新日期：2012-04-01 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 genetic surveys of the population of Britain conducted by Weale et al. and Capelli et al. produced estimates of the Germani immigration into Britain during the early Anglo-Saxon period, c.430-c.730. These estimates are considerably higher than the estimates of archaeologists. A possible explanation suggests that a...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Pattison JE

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is generally accepted that the relationship between human genes and language is very complex and multifaceted. This has its roots in the “regular” complexity governing the interplay among genes and between genes and environment for most phenotypes, but with the added layer of supraontogenetic and supra-individual p...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Dediu D

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

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 used 15 short tandem repeat (STR) loci (D8S1179, D21S11, D7S820, CSF1PO, D3S1358, TH01, D13S317, D16S539, D2S1338, D19S433, VWA, TPOX, D18S51, D5S818, and FGA) to genetically characterize 361 individuals from 11 indigenous populations (Amuzgo, Chinanteco, Chontal, Huave, Mazateco, Mixe, Mixteco, Triqui, Zapoteco de...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Quinto-Cortés CD,Arriola LA,García-Hughes G,García-López R,Molina DP,Flores M,Palacios R,Piñero D

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viewed as a biological concept, sexual dimorphism does not appear to motivate debate. However, with the aim of measuring such dimorphism, several indexes have been proposed, and not all of them have been regarded as equally reliable by the biological community. The main divergence between the indexes is that their def...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Ipiña SL,Durand AI

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study is to individualize potential differences between two cranial regions used to differentiate human populations. We compared the neurocranium and the facial skeleton using skulls from the Great Hungarian Plain. The skulls date to the 1st-11th centuries, a long space of time that encompasses seven a...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Holló G,Szathmáry L,Marcsik A,Barta Z

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Eleven short tandem repeat loci (CSF1PO, D3S1358, D5S818, D7S820, D8S1179, D13S317, D16S539, D18S51, D21S11, TH01, and TPOX) were investigated in 232 individuals from 6 Amazonian native tribes (Tiriyó, Waiãpi, Zoé, Urubu-Kaapor, Awa-Guajá, and Parakanã). We added the new data to a database that included five previousl...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Dos Santos SE,Ribeiro-Rodrigues EM,Ribeiro-Dos-Santos AK,Hutz MH,Tovo-Rodrigues L,Salzano FM,Callegari-Jacques SM

更新日期：2009-02-01 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：:The Muslim population of India is known for its historical and socioreligious significance. Literature on the genetic structure of this segment of India's population is scanty. Therefore we have investigated the allele frequency distribution of haptoglobin (HP) and transferrin (TF) phenotypes among the Muslims to expl...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Ahmad R,Alam A,Fatima F,Hasnain AU

更新日期：2008-10-01 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：:The primary purpose of this research is to collate, compare, and discuss the presently available data for head and face dimensions among Korean and Japanese ethnic groups. Classification of Korean male and female head and face types is simpler than classification of Japanese subjects. Male groups have more statistical...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Lee HJ,Park SJ

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We carried out an exploratory historical biology study using temporally distinguished groups of predynastic-Early Dynastic male crania from the region of Upper Egypt. The objectives were, first, to determine the overall pattern of phenetic affinity between temporally sequential series and in relation to the earliest s...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Keita SO,Boyce AJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 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

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：:Previous studies have sought to associate the Pro12Ala variant of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma2 (PPARG2) gene with type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, and obesity, with controversial results. We have determined the Pro12Ala variant frequency in 370 nondiabetic Mexican Mestizo subjects and in f...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Canizales-Quinteros S,Aguilar-Salinas CA,Ortiz-López MG,Rodríguez-Cruz M,Villarreal-Molina MT,Coral-Vázquez R,Huertas-Vázquez A,Hernández-Caballero A,López-Alarcón M,Brito-Zurita OR,Domínguez-Banda A,Martinez-Sánchez LR,Canto-de

更新日期：2007-02-01 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：: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：:Most of the inhabitants of South Tyrol in the eastern Italian Alps can be considered isolated populations because of their physical separation by mountain barriers and their sociocultural heritage. We analyzed the genetic structure of South Tyrolean populations using three types of genetic markers: Y-chromosome, mitoc...

journal_title：Human biology

authors： Pichler I,Mueller JC,Stefanov SA,De Grandi A,Volpato CB,Pinggera GK,Mayr A,Ogriseg M,Ploner F,Meitinger T,Pramstaller PP

更新日期：2006-08-01 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：: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