• However, most of the research had predominately Caucasian samples. (aosw.org)
  • Overtransmission of different alleles in different populations may be due to a different pattern of linkage disequilibrium between the marker rs2254298 and an as yet undetermined susceptibility variant in OXTR. (rti.org)
  • This analysis of the NHANES III spirometry data was conducted to develop reference equations to describe normal pulmonary function for three major race/ethnic groups: Caucasians, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans. (atsjournals.org)
  • Schwartz and colleagues ( 2 ) generated predictive equations based on data collected on African-American and Caucasian participants 6 to 24 yr of age in the NHANES II survey. (atsjournals.org)
  • Ideally, reference values are calculated with equations derived from measurements observed in a representative sample of healthy subjects in a general population. (ersjournals.com)
  • eGFR was calculated using cystatin C (eGFRCYS) and creatinine (eGFRCR) equations: Caucasian, Asian, pediatric, and adult cohorts (CAPA), the Lund-Malmö revised (LMrev), and the European Kidney Function Consortium (EKFC) equations. (lu.se)
  • Persons living in those areas are predominantly German with Caucasian ethnicity. (nature.com)
  • To investigate the prevalence in the Michigan non-Hispanic Caucasian population of the C282Y, H63D and S65C mutations in the HFE gene associated with hereditary hemochromatosis. (nih.gov)
  • Results indicate that the C282Y mutation may be more common in the non-Hispanic Caucasian population than previously reported, and medical problems related to iron overload may be a health concern for Michigan non-Hispanic Caucasians. (nih.gov)
  • and 5) a common CNV spanning the AVPR2 gene was recently described in a non-Hispanic Caucasian population. (elsevierpure.com)
  • CNV at the AVPR2 locus could not be independently confirmed, and CNV at the AVPR2 gene is unlikely to influence systemic water balance on a population-wide basis in non-Hispanic Caucasian subjects. (elsevierpure.com)
  • SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A new SANDAG report found that when it compared to the region's Caucasian population, Black and Hispanic communities are more than four times as likely to live in an area impacted by COVID-19 and unemployment. (10news.com)
  • The report says more than two-thirds of the county's Black (67%) and Hispanic (70%) populations live in zip codes with higher than average unemployment rates. (10news.com)
  • These charts will help radiologists and clinicians in predicting dates of delivery, assessing fetal growth and identifying intrauterine fetal insufficiency in the Pakistani population. (who.int)
  • 2,3 A diagnosis of primary adrenal insufficiency is established on the basis of a poor response to the adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) stimulation test and an elevated blood ACTH level.4 Adrenal insufficiency is rare with prevalence estimates in Western countries ranging from 82 to 280 cases per million population. (health.mil)
  • This set of tumors is considered the most common brain malignancy among pediatric population. (medscape.com)
  • Conclusions In Caucasian patients with presumed neovascular AMD, PCV prevalence is increased in eyes that respond poorly to ranibizumab monotherapy. (bmj.com)
  • We compared the genotype frequencies of 45 SNPs in 30 cytokine and chemokine genes in two healthy Chinese populations and one Caucasian population. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Several SNPs in IL4 had substantial genetic differentiation between the Chinese and Caucasian populations (F ST ∼0.40), and displayed a strikingly different haplotype distribution. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • To further characterize common genetic variation in worldwide populations at the IL4 locus, we genotyped 9 SNPs at the IL4 gene in the Human Diversity Panel's (N=1056) individuals from 52 world geographic regions. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and a haplotype constructed from them in OXTR have been associated with autism in the Chinese Han population. (rti.org)
  • We genotyped the two previously associated SNPs (rs2254298, rs53576) in 57 Caucasian autism trios. (rti.org)
  • These results suggest that there is substantial genetic diversity in immune genes and exploration of SNP associations with immune-related diseases that vary in incidence across these two populations may be warranted. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Polymorphism in the human 2'-5'-oligoadenylate synthetase genes (OAS), associated with predisposition to severe forms of tick-borne encephalitis, in populations from North Eurasia]. (cdc.gov)
  • Polymorphisms in chemokine receptor 5 and Toll-like receptor 3 genes are risk factors for clinical tick-borne encephalitis in the Lithuanian population. (cdc.gov)
  • Association between polymorphisms in OAS2 and CD209 genes and predisposition to chronic hepatitis C in Russian population. (cdc.gov)
  • 134/100,000 population. (who.int)
  • Incidence of medulloblastoma is 1.5-2 cases per 100,000 population, with 350 new cases in the United States each year. (medscape.com)
  • Selection and genetic drift can create genetic differences between populations. (johnshopkins.edu)
  • Some of the recently discovered genetic risk factors, such as factor V Leiden and prothrombin G20210A mutations, are quite common in the population. (intechopen.com)
  • All population-based studies published from 2000 to 2012 that reported chronic disease risk factors were considered. (cdc.gov)
  • She is involved in understanding the multifaceted aspects of health status and healthcare delivery in relation to minority populations, and has become a staunch advocate for policy changes for the elimination of health disparities, and for health equity. (cdc.gov)
  • Unfortunately, minority populations seem to face a greater cancer burden compared to others (American Cancer Society, 2014). (aosw.org)
  • If minority populations continue to face the burden of not being provided proper educational and networking support, their levels of distress have a greater chance of leading to further complications of depression, delirium and/or adjustment disorder (Campbell, Keefe, Scipio, McKee, & Edwards, 2006). (aosw.org)
  • In both samples, G was more frequent than A. However, in our Caucasian autism trios and the CEU Caucasian HapMap samples the frequency of A was less than that reported in the Chinese Han and Chinese in Bejing HapMap samples. (rti.org)
  • Automated warfarin dose prediction for Asian, American, and Caucasian population. (kumamoto-u.ac.jp)
  • Ancient and modern "Caucasoid" populations were thus not exclusively "white", but ranged in complexion from white-skinned to dark brown. (wikipedia.org)
  • In comparison, the study says Caucasian (14%) and Asian (24%) populations are less impacted in both cases. (10news.com)
  • More than 30% of Michigan Caucasians carry one HFE mutation, while 6% have two mutations. (nih.gov)
  • But what is a real-life New York investigative police officer to do when, in a city with a population of four million males, a savage rape has left its victim lying unconscious in a remote spot, permanently unable to recall any detail of the attack? (nybooks.com)
  • Spirometric reference values for Caucasians, African-Americans, and Mexican-Americans 8 to 80 yr of age were developed from 7,429 asymptomatic, lifelong nonsmoking participants in the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). (atsjournals.org)
  • Participants (n = 5049) from the population-based Malmö Diet and Cancer Study that underwent baseline examination and later participated in the prospective cardiovascular arm were selected. (lu.se)
  • the remaining portion of the population consists of African-American residents (1,409) and persons of other races (1,061) (Bureau of the Census 2000). (cdc.gov)
  • Even if one were to take that finding at face value, it actually was a study that showed that Andrew Wakefield was basically wrong in that no such correlation was found in Caucasians, male or female, African American girls, or any other racial group. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Caucasian subjects had higher mean FVC and FEV 1 values than did Mexican-American and African-American subjects across the entire age range. (atsjournals.org)
  • However, Caucasian and Mexican-American subjects had similar FVC and FEV 1 values with respect to height, and African-American subjects had lower values. (atsjournals.org)
  • The sample was selected from households in 81 counties across the United States, and included an oversampling of African-American and Mexican-American populations. (atsjournals.org)
  • Recent work by Wang and colleagues ( 3 , 4 ) studied pulmonary function in African-American and Caucasian children between 6 and 18 yr of age. (atsjournals.org)
  • In a recent reference value study, Glindmeyer and colleagues ( 9 ) compared Caucasian and African-American men and women 18 to 65 yr of age. (atsjournals.org)
  • Since the second half of the 20th century, physical anthropologists have switched from a typological understanding of human biological diversity towards a genomic and population-based perspective, and have tended to understand race as a social classification of humans based on phenotype and ancestry as well as cultural factors, as the concept is also understood in the social sciences. (wikipedia.org)
  • Since 1940, the populations of Meigs County, Rhea County, and Roane County have all grown by over 50% (Bureau of the Census 1993, 2000). (cdc.gov)
  • Since 1940, the population of Meigs County has grown by almost 75% (Bureau of the Census 1993, 2000). (cdc.gov)
  • Over the past 60 years, the population of Rhea County has increased by nearly 75% (Bureau of the Census 1993, 2000). (cdc.gov)
  • Over this 60-year period, the population of Roane County has grown by 86.8%, as shown in Table 4 (Bureau of the Census 1993, 2000). (cdc.gov)
  • ABSTRACT General Information Census of Population and Housing, 1980: Summary Tape File 1 {machine-readable data file} / conducted by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. (cdc.gov)
  • This, however, requires further elucidation of the relation of different retinal layers with brain features in the general population. (nature.com)
  • To date, only one study evaluated the relation between retina layer parameters and the brain on a large-scale population level. (nature.com)
  • An effective hearing conservation program, including a periodic audiometric testing and hearing protection intervention, for this study population should be in place. (cdc.gov)
  • This is the first publication to examine HFE allele frequencies in an unbiased sample of the Caucasian population. (nih.gov)
  • The third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) was conducted from 1988 to 1994, and it comprised a random sample of the U.S. population living in households. (atsjournals.org)
  • We tested whether these associations replicated in a Caucasian sample with strictly defined autistic disorder. (rti.org)
  • Meanwhile, the county population increased during the remaining time periods to reach a population of 51,910 in 2000. (cdc.gov)
  • The population of these four cities between 1940 and 2000 (see Table 5 ), and the population distribution during that time period (see Figure 16 ) appear below. (cdc.gov)
  • However, between 2 and 8 percent of the general population may be vulnerable to toxic reactions to fluoropyrimidine drugs caused by otherwise asymptomatic dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency. (medlineplus.gov)
  • The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, Europid, or Europoid) is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • In his The Outline of History of Mankind (1785), the German philosopher Christoph Meiners first used the concept of a "Caucasian" (Kaukasisch) race in its wider racial sense. (wikipedia.org)
  • Meiners imagined that the Caucasian race encompassed all of the ancient and most of the modern native populations of Europe, the aboriginal inhabitants of West Asia (including the Phoenicians, Hebrews and Arabs), the autochthones of Northern Africa (Berbers, Egyptians, Abyssinians and neighboring groups), the Indians, and the ancient Guanches. (wikipedia.org)
  • Alongside the anthropologist Georges Cuvier, Blumenbach classified the Caucasian race by cranial measurements and bone morphology in addition to skin pigmentation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following Meiners, Blumenbach described the Caucasian race as consisting of the native inhabitants of Europe, West Asia, the Indian peninsula, and North Africa. (wikipedia.org)
  • This year, mixed-race kids (under 18) make up the fastest-growing segment of the population. (marieclaire.com)
  • These differences may be partially due to differences in body build: observed Mexican-Americans were shorter than Caucasian subjects of the same age, and African-Americans on average have a smaller trunk:leg ratio than do Caucasians. (atsjournals.org)
  • The present study was therefore planned with the primary goal being to establish base-line information regarding periodontal disease in a portion of the population. (uwc.ac.za)
  • Consecutive Caucasian patients with SSc were recruited at 6 French and 5 Italian medical centers. (jrheum.org)
  • It assumes that the aggregate measure is computed from similar matrices of discrete demographic data for two populations under comparison. (demographic-research.org)
  • The population comprised all 3 .684 white pupils in Standard VIII attending the 34 schools in the Cape Peninsula during 1977. (uwc.ac.za)
  • In the United States, the root term Caucasian is still in use as a synonym for white or of European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestry, a usage that has been criticized. (wikipedia.org)
  • Figure 13 provides the current population distribution in the White Oak Creek Study area, and Figure 14 details current demographic information for areas within ½ mile, 1 mile, and 5 miles of the White Oak Creek study area. (cdc.gov)
  • The Meigs County population is comprised of 10,826 Caucasians, 138 African-Americans, and 122 persons of other races. (cdc.gov)
  • The Rhea County population consists of 27,097 Caucasians, 580 African-Americans, and 723 persons of other races. (cdc.gov)
  • Against this background we investigated the association of all retinal layers as well as novel peripapillary RNFL parameters with cerebral structural measures, including DTI derived FA, in a general, mostly Caucasian, population. (nature.com)
  • We studied the impact of estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) based on either creatinine or cystatin C, or in combination, on vascular aging (aortic stiffness) and central hemodynamics (central systolic blood pressure) in a Swedish urban population with median 17 years of follow-up. (lu.se)
  • Vancouver's Caucasian population is smaller than those of visible minorities combined. (dropzone.com)
  • Association of single nucleotide polymorphism rs3775291 in the coding region of the TLR3 gene with predisposition to tick-borne encephalitis in a Russian population. (cdc.gov)
  • Workers showed significantly poorer hearing in the left ear, and a typical characteristic of NIHL, a V-notch at 4 or 6 kHz, was not shown in this population. (cdc.gov)
  • These findings provide support for association of OXTR with autism in a Caucasian population. (rti.org)
  • This study compares a polymorphism in the SULT1A1 gene, SULT1A1 enzyme activity, meat consumption, and the risk of prostate cancer in a population based case-control study. (aacrjournals.org)