• The population frequency of the indel (rs66698963) is remarkably different among human populations with the insertion being far more frequent in South Asians, Africans and some East Asian populations, and far less common in European and other East Asian populations. (fatsoflife.com)
  • In order to determine a new subject's genetic ancestry, Parabon Snapshot analyzes tens of thousands of SNPs from a DNA sample to determine a person's percent membership in each of these global populations. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • Most other forensic ancestry systems use only a small number of SNPs and thus are limited to very coarse populations and cannot detect admixture between populations. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • Parabon's scientists have collected data from many published scientific articles, totalling more than 9,000 individuals with clearly defined ancestry from more than 150 populations around the world, as shown in the map below. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • Academic research using hundreds of thousands of SNPs from across the genome has shown that human groups generally divide into seven continental populations, which have been established over the past 50,000 years during the migration out of Africa. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • The 150 populations collected as the ancestry background can thus be divided into these seven continental groups according to their origin. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • Snapshot takes a similar approach to identifying within-continental (regional) ancestry, although the local populations were identified through empirical analysis performed by our bioinformatics team. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • In an ancestry analysis, Snapshot will determine an individual's precise genetic origins, as well as whether there is any evidence of admixture (contribution from multiple populations). (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • The 93 SNP AIM subset had substantially larger intercontinental paired Fst values than the random SNPs for any of the pairs of population groups from the sub-Saharan African, Amerindian, East Asian, Oceana and European (excluding the South Asian populations) continental groups (Table 1). (familytreedna.com)
  • They didn't claim to be able to differentiate ethnic/geographic populations within Europe. (familytreedna.com)
  • Studies that traverse ancestrally diverse populations may increase power to detect novel loci and improve fine-mapping resolution of causal variants by leveraging linkage disequilibrium differences between ethnic groups. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The concentration of research and resources within one ancestral group has the potential to further perpetuate and even exacerbate known disparities that negatively affect populations with ancestry that is underrepresented in research (see Box 1: "What do we mean by ancestry? (nature.com)
  • In the context of this paper, ancestry is defined using genetic variants based on the distribution of those variants in worldwide populations. (nature.com)
  • By comparing segments of DNA with the distribution of genetic variants in worldwide populations, it is possible to determine the likely "parental" or source population for each segment of DNA, indicating a component of the individual's overall ancestry. (nature.com)
  • At the Tokyo meeting, for example, it was noted that even among the Japanese researchers, there was no unitary understanding of what populations should be considered "Asian. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • We classified those articles on the basis of their samples into high-risk and low-risk populations and white and Asian ethnic groups. (ox.ac.uk)
  • While the Argentinean and Brazilian national populations have roughly the same degree of pre-1500 European ancestry, Argentine has a White European national image while Brazil has a multiracial one. (humanvarieties.org)
  • Across the Americas, Amerindian and African (versus European) ancestry was found to be negatively correlated in admixed populations (e.g. (humanvarieties.org)
  • Interethnic analyses of blood pressure loci in populations of East Asian and European descent. (ox.ac.uk)
  • For example, the incidence rate of liver cancer has been shown with substantial disparity between Hispanic, Asian and non-Hispanic white populations. (omicsdi.org)
  • RESULTS:In this study we designed an unique AIM panel that infers 3-way genetic admixture from three distinct and selective continental populations (African (AFR), European (EUR), and East Asian (EAS)) within evolutionarily conserved exonic regions. (omicsdi.org)
  • Combining African-descent populations into one group obscures clinical differences and generalizes diabetes risk. (bvsalud.org)
  • The term race refers to the concept of dividing people into populations or groups on the basis of various sets of characteristics and beliefs about common ancestry. (daynal.org)
  • Heart failure among South Asians: a narrative review of risk, nature, outcomes and management. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Reviewed literature showed that South Asians with HF were more likely to be younger and have diabetes and hypertension. (ox.ac.uk)
  • These papers also implied that outcomes for South Asians with HF were similar or even better than for Caucasians. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The review highlighted the under-representation of South Asians in HF trials, meaning that evidence-based recommendations tailored to this specific population are limited. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Independent effect of ethnicity on glycemia in South Asians and white Europeans. (ox.ac.uk)
  • This comparison has not been performed between South Asians (SAs) and WEs. (ox.ac.uk)
  • It was anticipated that collating existing studies in this manner would be useful for guiding professionals in managing HF within this ethnic group, given that to achieve optimal care, regimens need to take into account cultural differences that may impact on adherence. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The celebration of Tiger Woods' mixed descent and his widespread popularity would seem to support David Hollinger's argument that the history of the United States has been a successful (albeit episodic) history of "amalgamation" overcoming group differences. (historycooperative.org)
  • For example: To what degree are differences in national racial identification related to such and such outcomes independent of genomic ancestry? (humanvarieties.org)
  • Our results provide new evidence for the role of common ancestry-specific variants and natural selection in ethnic differences in complex traits such as BP. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of depressive symptoms among middle-aged women: The Study of Women's Health Across the Nation (SWAN). (wakehealth.edu)
  • Given visually complex social relationships, humans presumably have always observed and speculated about the physical differences among individuals and groups. (daynal.org)
  • For example, the Ancient Egyptian sacred text called Book of Gates identifies four ethnic categories that are now conventionally labeled "Egyptians", "Asiatics", "Libyans", and "Nubians", but such distinctions tended to conflate differences as defined by physical features such as skin tone, with tribal and national identity. (daynal.org)
  • Smedley 1999) As Europeans encountered people from different parts of the world , they speculated about the physical, social, and cultural differences among various human groups. (daynal.org)
  • Meltzer 1993) Drawing on Classical sources and upon their own internal interactions - for example, the hostility between the English and Irish was a powerful influence on early thinking about the differences between people (Takaki 1993) - Europeans began to sort themselves and others into groups associated with physical appearance and with deeply ingrained behaviors and capacities. (daynal.org)
  • The objective of this systematic review was to determine whether there are racial and ethnic differences in somatization in women with depression or depressive symptoms. (illinois.edu)
  • This analysis is robust to admixture, such that each piece of continental ancestry can be precisely localized within that continent. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • If your family is Puerto Rican it is not at all unusual to have African ancestry, African ancestry on numerous lines, no family phenotypes that seem African in appearance, and no records identifying admixture events. (familytreedna.com)
  • AncestryDNA, 23andMe, FamilyTreeDNA Family Finder and Genographic2.0 all offer much more reliable ancestry admixture assays than AbDNA. (familytreedna.com)
  • These data provide additional support for using the 93 AIM set to efficiently identify continental subject groups for genetic studies, to identify study population outliers, and to control for admixture in association studies. (familytreedna.com)
  • And even as fun experiments with ADMIXTURE go, it's now horribly outdated, and probably useless for anyone with less than 15-20% Ashkenazi ancestry. (blogspot.com)
  • Previously, a literature review was conducted regarding continental racial admixture and educational attainment and/or socioeconomic status. (humanvarieties.org)
  • Some of these predict that the ancestry-outcome association will generalize spatially, such that admixture will be correlated with outcomes across regions and nations. (humanvarieties.org)
  • The association between regional ancestral and cognitive related outcome variation in Mexico will first be explored, since for this county reliable regional admixture estimates, at least with regards to European and Amerindian ancestry, and outcome measures are available and also since there is a good deal of spatial variation in admixture (and outcomes). (humanvarieties.org)
  • Currently, ancestry informative marker (AIM) panels have been widely utilized with up to a few hundred ancestry-informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to infer ancestry admixture. (omicsdi.org)
  • According to Nicholas Wade, "Humans cluster into five continental groups or races, and within each race there are further subclusters. (thisviewoflife.com)
  • The paucity of data on individuals with African ancestry is especially noteworthy as Africa is the birthplace of modern humans and harbors the greatest genetic diversity. (nature.com)
  • 3060 non-Hispanic Asian Americans, 1.5%) from 926 US centers participating in the Get With The Guidelines-Stroke program from April 2003 through December 2008. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Whites had higher 30-day unadjusted mortality than other groups (white versus black versus Hispanic versus Asian=15.0% versus 9.9% versus 11.9% versus 11.1%, respectively). (elsevierpure.com)
  • After risk adjustment, Asian American patients with AIS had lower 30-day and 1-year mortality than white, black, and Hispanic patients. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Subjects identified themselves as belonging to one of four major racial/ethnic groups (white, African American, East Asian, and Hispanic) and were recruited from 15 different geographic locales within the United States and Taiwan. (blogspot.com)
  • From left to right, the FBI assigns the above individuals to the following races: White, Black, Hispanic, Asian. (kss.org.pl)
  • An ancestry informative marker panel design for individual ancestry estimation of Hispanic population using whole exome sequencing data. (omicsdi.org)
  • Pacific Islander Americans make up 0.5% of the U.S. population including those with partial Pacific Islander ancestry, enumerating about 1.4 million people. (thegatheringbaltimore.com)
  • The limitations of Hollinger's analysis are quickly apparent when we consider just one of his "communities" of descent: Asian Americans. (historycooperative.org)
  • BACKGROUND:Europeans and American Indians were major genetic ancestry of Hispanics in the U.S. These ancestral groups have markedly different incidence rates and outcomes in many types of cancers. (omicsdi.org)
  • For clarity, and to be consistent with recently published guidelines for characterizing ancestry in genomic research, 10 we here use "individuals of African ancestry" to describe sub-Saharan Africans and those who identify as African American or Afro-Caribbean. (nature.com)
  • However, often brutal conflicts between ethnic groups have existed throughout history and across the world, and racial prejudice against Africans also exists today in non-colonised countries such as China and Japan. (kss.org.pl)
  • The number of ancestral groups, K, is chosen to produce a best estimate of these probabilities, which are averaged over all genetic markers to assign a membership coefficient, namely a fraction of each individual's ancestry to one of the ancestral groups (Feldman 2010. (thisviewoflife.com)
  • Using all of this information, Snapshot builds a precise profile of an individual's ethnic ancestry using only his or her DNA. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • And if you've followed along with me in my arguments, then you should be convinced that race is real, the groups we usually call races are social kinds, their social construction involves problematic notions, the categories themsevles came into existence from false views, their current existence is nonetheless real, and where racial boundaries are drawn can vary from place to place, across time, and even from conversation to conversation. (parableman.com)
  • If you followed me in my line of reasoning in the last post, you would also agree with me that there are groups that biology can identify that seem perfectly reasonably to call races but that are not remotely like the old biological theories of race and are much closer to the social kind races that we refer to in ordinary conversation. (parableman.com)
  • Our ordinary racial terms don't quite refer to precisely the same groups as these newly recognized biological races, however, so it wouldn't be accurate to say that these groups are the same races that we ordinarily speak of. (parableman.com)
  • A very important new article by a group of Greek and Chinese researchers provides the first quantitative assessment of mental processing in two groups of students, aged 8 to 14, belonging to the Caucasoid and Mongoloid races. (blogspot.com)
  • Conceptions of race, as well as specific ways of grouping races , vary by culture and over time, and are often controversial for scientific as well as social and political reasons. (daynal.org)
  • We look at what it will take for Europeans to reach a critical mass of racial awareness and take actions to combat monsters like Barbara Spectre, who unapologetically advocates the destruction of ethnic European societies. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • Here, we perform a multi-stage genome-wide association study for BP (max N = 289,038) principally in East Asians and meta-analysis in East Asians and Europeans. (ox.ac.uk)
  • OBJECTIVE: HbA(1c) levels are higher in most ethnic groups compared with white Europeans (WEs) independent of glycemic control. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The inclusion of African ancestry samples may yield further improvements because of low linkage disequilibrium and high genetic heterogeneity. (ox.ac.uk)
  • The inclusion of African ancestry samples in the meta-analysis leads to a marked improvement in fine-mapping resolution. (ox.ac.uk)
  • We apply Summix to gnomAD v.2.1 exome and genome groups and subgroups, finding heterogeneous continental ancestry for several groups, including African/African American (∼84% AFR, ∼14% EUR) and American/Latinx (∼4% AFR, ∼5% EAS, ∼43% EUR, ∼46% IAM). (omicsdi.org)
  • The population frequency of the allele corresponding to the rs66698963 insertion (allele named I) or deletion (allele named D) was determined from genomic DNA extracted from human samples (blood, breast milk, and placenta) obtained from several participating institutions in the US and Canada (n=211, nearly all from Kansas City), as well as from a group of Asian Indians (n=76). (fatsoflife.com)
  • It is expected that greater representation of those with African ancestry in genomic research will bring novel insights into human biology, and lead to improvements in clinical care and improved understanding of health disparities. (nature.com)
  • Here, we evaluate the promise of including diverse individuals in genomic research in the context of recent literature on individuals of African ancestry. (nature.com)
  • However, the concepts presented may extend directly to all individuals with any degree of a particular ancestry, as ancestry at a genomic locus of interest may have important health effects, regardless of self-identification. (nature.com)
  • It has been noted that in the Americas racial identification and genomic racial ancestry frequently don't well correspond. (humanvarieties.org)
  • 2014) found a correlation of 0.48 between self-identified European and Amerindian racial identity and genomic ancestry in a five country sample. (humanvarieties.org)
  • these include: national genomic percents, aggregate self- identified race percents, Putterman's ancestry percents, and national skin reflectance scores. (humanvarieties.org)
  • While Black men are most particularly affected, as data has historically shown, the opposite is observed for Asian men, thus creating a basis for exploring genomic pathways potentially involved in mediating these opposing trends. (usuhs.edu)
  • When comparing between continental ethnicity, meaning sorting African from European from Asian from Native American, these tests are relatively accurate, meaning there is sometimes a little bit of overlap, but not much. (dna-explained.com)
  • On the other hand, we detected only modest genetic differentiation between different current geographic locales within each race/ethnicity group. (blogspot.com)
  • Thus, ancient geographic ancestry, which is highly correlated with self-identified race/ethnicity-as opposed to current residence-is the major determinant of genetic structure in the U.S. population. (blogspot.com)
  • We analyzed the independent effect of ethnicity on HbA(1c) and fasting and 2-h plasma glucose (FPG and 2 hrPG, respectively) between these groups. (ox.ac.uk)
  • BTW my AbDNA accorded me about 10% African ancestry that has never been confirmed by on four sibling genome-wide scans. (familytreedna.com)
  • Snapshot uses tens of thousands of SNPs across the genome to obtain very precise estimates of ancestry, even for admixed individuals. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • We report 19 new genetic loci and ancestry-specific BP variants, conforming to a common ancestry-specific variant association model. (ox.ac.uk)
  • At 10 unique loci, distinct non-rare ancestry-specific variants colocalize within the same linkage disequilibrium block despite the significantly discordant effects for the proxy shared variants between the ethnic groups. (ox.ac.uk)
  • STRUCTURE is an algorithm designed to infer population structure (cluster individuals into ancestry groups) within a species (Pritchard, Stephens, and Donnelly 2000. (thisviewoflife.com)
  • By this they mean that the 93 AIM SNP panel was able to accurately separate the samples by continent - sub-Saharan African, Amerindian, East Asian, Oceana and European. (familytreedna.com)
  • White European, Black African, and Amerindian - plus an "Other" group. (humanvarieties.org)
  • The old descriptor ANIMALS will be changed to ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS. (bvsalud.org)
  • The ancestral groups are not specified in advance, and the population membership of individuals is removed prior to analysis. (thisviewoflife.com)
  • Each point represents a population from which we have obtained ancestry background data. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • 1) "In accordance with historical records, recent studies showed that AJ are genetically homogeneous with mixed European and Middle-Eastern ancestry and that the AJ population had undergone a severe bottleneck around 800ya followed by an extremely rapid expansion. (blogspot.com)
  • Another example of the challenges associated with the use of population descriptors can be found in the frequent use of the terms European, African, and Asian. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • Discrimination and genocide in Nazi Germany was not restricted to individuals showing an "Oriental-Armenoid" or any other type of habitus, but was directed against all individuals belonging to the Jewish ethnic population. (kss.org.pl)
  • The Indo-Guyanese population is one of the fastest growing immigrant groups in North America (1) and the largest immigrant minority population in Schenectady, New York. (cdc.gov)
  • Because the US population census does not recognize Indo-Guyanese as a racial/ethnic category, and the Indo-Guyanese do not live in enclaves, we used convenience sampling for this study. (cdc.gov)
  • Global ancestry map showing mostly East Asian and Native/South American ancestry, with some European ancestry as well. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • For example, the admixed East Asian and Latino example from the global map above was determined to have specifically Japanese, Central American, and Southwest European ancestry, as shown in the map below. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • Regional ancestry map showing mostly Japanese, Southwest European, and Central American ancestry. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • Each piece of continental ancestry is partitioned according to its regional ancestry (e.g., if an individual is 50% European and 50% East Asian, the precise origin of each of those pieces will be determined). (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • Latino ancestry is a mixture of European and Native American ancestry, so these groups are shown as well. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • We investigate the fine-mapping resolution of trans-ethnic fixed-effects meta-analysis for five type II diabetes loci, under various settings of ancestral composition (European, East Asian, African), allelic heterogeneity, and causal variant minor allele frequency. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In particular, three settings of ancestral composition were compared: (1) single ancestry (European), (2) moderate ancestral diversity (European and East Asian), and (3) high ancestral diversity (European, East Asian, and African). (ox.ac.uk)
  • Our simulations suggest that the European/Asian and European ancestry-only meta-analyses consistently attain similar fine-mapping resolution. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Similarly, we use "European ancestry individuals" to describe those who identify as "white" from Europe or America. (nature.com)
  • When the actual samples in the name of "European", "African", and "Asian" are taken from certain limited groups, without taking into account significant diversity within each region, it is unlikely that such broad terms have any scientific meaning, at least from the perspective of genetics on the global level. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • 2014) found that, on the individual level, White identity was associated with wealth (but not educational attainment) net of European ancestry (see note 1). (humanvarieties.org)
  • Using continental reference ancestry, African (AFR), non-Finnish European (EUR), East Asian (EAS), Indigenous American (IAM), South Asian (SAS), we obtain accurate and precise estimates (within 0.1%) for all simulation scenarios. (omicsdi.org)
  • Medieval models of "race" mixed Classical ideas with the notion that humanity as a whole was descended from Shem , Ham and Japheth , the three sons of Noah , producing distinct Semitic ( Asian ), Hamitic ( African ), and Japhetic ( European ) peoples. (daynal.org)
  • Also, some users are doing weird stuff with the Jtest output in an attempt to estimate their supposedly "true" Ashkenazi ancestry proportions, like multiplying their Ashkenazi coefficient by three, because Ashkenazi Jews "only" score around 30% Ashkenazi in this test. (blogspot.com)
  • Although several methods exist to estimate ancestry in individual-level data, methods to estimate ancestry proportions in summary data are lacking. (omicsdi.org)
  • We present age-specific incidence rates of MS from two ongoing prospective cohort studies of US women-the Nurses' Health Study (NHS) and the Nurses' Health Study II (NHS II)-and compare them by ancestry and geographic region. (neurology.org)
  • If you really want to confirm your Jewish ancestry, either or both Ashkenazi and Sephardi, then you need to look at much more powerful and sophisticated options. (blogspot.com)
  • One of these options is the Global25 analysis (see HERE ), which can pick up minor Jewish ancestry of just a few per cent. (blogspot.com)
  • But I can help you get started and even quickly check if you have any hope at all of confirming Jewish ancestry. (blogspot.com)
  • The Jtest folder contains files that can be used to make an Ashkenazi ancestry test/chromosome painting with 14 Eurasian and African clusters. (blogspot.com)
  • Recent genetic research indicates that the degree of genetic heterogeneity within groups and homogeneity across groups make race per se a less compelling predictor. (bvsalud.org)
  • The polymorphism was present as an insertion in cells derived from a group of Japanese individuals, but was completely absent (a deletion) in others, albeit with a lower frequency (hence called the minor allele). (fatsoflife.com)
  • Individuals of South Asian descent have a high prevalence of comorbidities that are risk factors for the development of heart failure (HF), including diabetes mellitus and metabolic syndrome. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Novel loci for adiponectin levels and their influence on type 2 diabetes and metabolic traits: a multi-ethnic meta-analysis of 45,891 individuals. (ox.ac.uk)
  • STRUCTURE produces for individuals an estimate of the probability that a randomly chosen genetic marker (e.g. single tandem repeats, STR, or single nucleotide polymorphisms, SNP) from that individual originated from one of a set of ancestral groups. (thisviewoflife.com)
  • How can one assess the adhesion of individuals and social groups to the multi-ethnic and multicultural British nation of our times? (calenda.org)
  • 68] On the other hand Edwards (2003) claims in his essay "Lewontin's Fallacy" that: "It is not true, as Nature claimed, that 'two random individuals from any one group are almost as different as any two random individuals from the entire world'" and Risch et al. (kss.org.pl)
  • I wonder if some of the reason for these results is the quality of the marker/s they are using for African ancestry? (familytreedna.com)
  • Compared to the unadjusted gnomAD AFs, Summix's ancestry-adjusted AFs more closely match respective African and Latinx reference samples. (omicsdi.org)
  • The rise of the Atlantic slave trade , which gradually displaced an earlier trade in slaves from throughout the world, created a further incentive to categorize human groups in order to justify the subordination of African slaves. (daynal.org)
  • After global ancestry is determined, Snapshot's ancestry algorithm investigates which subpopulations (e.g. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • We must be careful not to read back into historical time definitions of racial or ethnic belonging without explaining the work that went into their formation and stability. (historycooperative.org)
  • Materials and Methods: The study focused on peer-reviewed, English-written publications of adult women that compared two or more racial or ethnic women and used reliable measures. (illinois.edu)
  • Importantly, someone's genetic ancestry may have little to do with their identity in terms of race or culture. (nature.com)
  • There is no evidence, however, that at any time historically people have considered themselves "Asian American" because of a pan-Asian sense of shared descent, even if identities such as "Chinese" or "Japanese" might have been imagined categories of shared descent. (historycooperative.org)
  • Jenny Chong: It is important to take classes in Asian American Studies because it helps students to broaden their view on diversity, especially because we live in a diverse city. (thegatheringbaltimore.com)
  • When considering the contribution of environmental as well as genetic factors to diversity within each continental region, the scientific validity of the use of such broad terms to describe samples becomes even more questionable. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • Below is an example plot for an individual who was determined to be 50% East Asian and 50% Latino. (parabon-nanolabs.com)
  • East Asian identity is the objective or subjective state of perceiving oneself as an East Asian person and as relating to being East Asian. (thegatheringbaltimore.com)
  • For undergraduate courses in race and ethnic relations. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • Further, we investigate the TCGA race cohort to conduct an ancestry analysis and to identify differentially expressed genes highly upregulated in one race and subsequently downregulated in another. (usuhs.edu)
  • Our findings highlight pathway-oriented genetic mutation frequencies characterized by race, and further, we identify candidate gene transcripts that have differential expression between Black and Asian men. (usuhs.edu)
  • Background: Racial and ethnic minority women in the United States have an elevated risk of depression or depressive symptoms compared with White women. (illinois.edu)
  • Trans-ethnic study design approaches for fine-mapping. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Future studies should assess how depression/ depressive symptoms affect racial and ethnic minority women to identify mechanisms involved in increased somatization. (illinois.edu)
  • it cannot be assumed that treatments shown to work for Caucasians will be efficacious for those from minority ethnic groups. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Here, we present Summix, a method to efficiently deconvolute ancestry and provide ancestry-adjusted allele frequencies (AFs) from summary data. (omicsdi.org)
  • Some of the ancestry-specific association signals are also influenced by a selective sweep. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Some Roman writers adhered to an environmental determinism in which climate could affect the appearance and character of groups (Isaac 2004). (daynal.org)
  • Therefore, a literature review relating to the nature, outcome and treatment of HF in South Asian patients compared to Caucasians was conducted. (ox.ac.uk)
  • I think a lot of people who aren't necessarily interested in genealogy per se are interested in discovering their ethnic mix - and maybe for some it will be a doorway to more traditional genealogy because it will fan the flame of curiosity. (dna-explained.com)
  • A higher incidence of MS has been found in northern areas compared with southern areas of the United States and other countries, but the attenuation of this gradient in Europe in the last few decades and the consideration of ethnic factors have led some authors to question the existence of a strong association between MS and latitude. (neurology.org)
  • This group brings unique issues, such as living in a largely Christian society, competing with the Nation of Islam, refuting stereotypes in the media and popular culture, finding a political voice, and coping with post-9/11 Islamophobia, all leading to the consideration of the prospects for a uniquely "American Islam" that reflects U.S. pluralism and (supposed) separation of "church and state. (oxfordre.com)
  • world's first female board member of a Chong Wa Benevolent Society chapter, world's first female president of a Chong Wa chapter, first Asian American member of the King County Council. (historylink.org)
  • Compared with whites, other racial and ethnic groups were on average younger and had a higher median score on the National Institutes of Health Stroke Scale. (elsevierpure.com)