• Differences we observe clinically between self-identified racial/ethnic groups do not necessarily imply a genetic/biological difference. (aacc.org)
  • [ 1 ] Significant genetic variation exists between and within racial and ethnic groups, but the issue is confounded by important coexisting economic, cultural, and environmental differences, including geography (place of birth). (medscape.com)
  • To evaluate whether there are individual- and population-level associations between chronic hypertension and pregnancy complications, and to assess differences across seven racial-ethnic groups.This population-based study used linked vital statistics and hospitalization discharge data from all live and stillbirths in California (2008-2018), Michigan (2008-2020), Oregon (2008-2020), Pennsylvania (2008-2014), and South Carolina (2008-2020). (stanford.edu)
  • Estimated RRs overall were similar across racial-ethnic groups, but PAR percentages varied. (stanford.edu)
  • The authors claimed that average intelligence quotient (IQ) differences between racial and ethnic groups are at least partly genetic in origin, a view that is now considered discredited by mainstream science. (wikipedia.org)
  • The incidence of congenital malformations in different ethnic groups was 0.85%, 1.45% and 1.70% in native Fars, Turkman and Sistani groups respectively. (who.int)
  • These two racial and ethnic groups together, made up about 70% of the MIS-C cases reported to CDC. (cdc.gov)
  • Public health and lay explanations for racial disparities in health outcomes often differ. (cdc.gov)
  • Genetics are often grouped with societal, behavioral, and environmental factors as catalysts for disparities of self-identified races. (aacc.org)
  • The Human Genome project has explained our most fundamental genetics, CRISPR gene editing can be used to shape genetic code, and companies like 23 & Me can trace your ancestry from a single saliva swab. (uchicago.edu)
  • But all this new genetic information has people asking: How much do genetics determine our outcomes in life? (uchicago.edu)
  • In a new book, The Genetic Lottery: Why DNA Matters for Social Equality, behavior geneticist Kathryn Paige Harden explores these uncomfortable corners of genetics research and explains why our economic and sociopolitical systems need to take it into account. (uchicago.edu)
  • Paul Rand: That's Kathryn Paige Harden, a professor of psychology at the university of Texas at Austin, who focuses on behavioral genetic. (uchicago.edu)
  • For these reasons, the researchers "conclude that nongenetic factors, such as differences in access to healthcare and therapies, likely drive the differences between Black and white individuals in real-world settings," said Rao. (aacc.org)
  • Little is known about how genetic and nongenetic factors modify responses of vitamin D supplementation in nonwhite populations. (medscape.com)
  • Ancestry data support the grouping of Kwadi-Khoe, Kx'a, and Tuu languages, support the exclusion of Omotic languages from the Afroasiatic language family, and do not support the proposed DenĂ©-Yeniseian language family as a genetically valid grouping. (nature.com)
  • Stratified analyses were then used to evaluate whether differences in mean slope by genotype were consistent among ethnic/racial groups and between ever- and never-smokers. (cdc.gov)
  • Just like American racist that try to define "white" versus "non-white" to some kind of genetic difference. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • These facts and refutations have contributed little to the understanding of race or to the revision of racial prejudices and racist practices. (bvsalud.org)
  • Causes of differences between individuals include independent assortment, the exchange of genes (crossing over and recombination) during reproduction (through meiosis) and various mutational events. (wikipedia.org)
  • lieve that races are distinct biological categories created by differences in genes that people inherit from their ancestors. (123helpme.com)
  • Although no genetic tests for violent behaviour are currently available, research is ongoing to isolate genes related to a propensity for violence. (bmj.com)
  • While genetic research has yielded accurate genetic tests for some single-gene conditions (for example Huntington's disease, Duchenne's muscular dystrophy), research continues into a wide range of multifactorial conditions (for example heart disease, diabetes, and behavioural traits) that will be explained only partially by the isolation of a gene or group of genes. (bmj.com)
  • Given the sight-threatening potential of VMI abnormalities, further genetic studies, such as genomewide association studies, would be useful to identify genes and pathways implicated in their pathogenesis. (bvsalud.org)
  • To determine the genetic basis for this difference, inactivating CYP2D6 mutations were assessed by allele-specific PCR amplification and RFLP analyses of genomic DNA from 126 unrelated whites and 127 unrelated blacks. (jci.org)
  • Conclusions: Common VMI abnormalities are heritable and therefore have an underlying genetic component. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lay explanatory frameworks for racial disparities in COVID-19 included vaccine mistrust, lack of personal responsibility, low perceived susceptibility to COVID-19, pre-existing conditions or genetic predisposition, institutional racism, barriers to care, low socioeconomic status, insufficient information on COVID-19, and the inability to work remotely. (cdc.gov)
  • Genetic differences may alter susceptibility to asthma, as well as responsiveness to asthma medications. (medscape.com)
  • These genetic tests will not be diagnostic but will confirm or refute only an increased propensity or susceptibility for a particular condition. (bmj.com)
  • The findings indicate that self-identified race and genetic ancestry are not interchangeable risk factors, Rao continued. (aacc.org)
  • The lack of discontinuities in genetic distances between human populations, absence of discrete branches in the human species, and striking homogeneity of human beings globally, imply that there is no scientific basis for inferring races or subspecies in humans, and for most traits, there is much more variation within populations than between them. (wikipedia.org)
  • Racialism implies that these races are substantially physiologically different from each other and that these racial differences strongly determine the abilities and behavior of individuals and peoples. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Conversely, two people of different "races" can share more genetic similarity than two individuals of the same "race" (Bamshad and Olson, 2003). (bvsalud.org)
  • Because racial identity itself is a social rather than biological construct, it is vulnerable to confounding because of the effects of structural racism, socioeconomic inequality, environmental disparities, and unequal access to care, limiting its interpretability," wrote the investigators. (aacc.org)
  • Studies of genetic and biological contributing factors in disparities in care haven't done a robust job of addressing societal and environmental factors. (aacc.org)
  • Race: Social Concept, Biological Idea Race, in the common understanding, draws upon differences not only of skin color and physical attributes but also of language, nationality, and religion. (123helpme.com)
  • Essentially, there is a major difference between the biological and sociological views of race. (123helpme.com)
  • But as I've shown here, Wade's book is all pseudoscientific rubbish because he can't justify his first and primary point: his claim that the human racial groups we recognize today culturally are scientifically meaningful, discrete biological divisions of humans. (scienceblogs.com)
  • In humans, the main cause is genetic drift. (wikipedia.org)
  • Genetic variation among humans occurs on many scales, from gross alterations in the human karyotype to single nucleotide changes. (wikipedia.org)
  • While anthropologists continue to study how and why humans vary biologically, it is apparent that human populations differ from one another much less than do populations in other species because we use our cultural, rather than our physical differences to aid us in adapting to various environments. (123helpme.com)
  • Genetic competition among humans, on a tiny planet in a vast universe, is the height of stupidity. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Genetic and archaeological studies have established a sub-Saharan African origin for anatomically modern humans with subsequent migrations out of Africa. (nature.com)
  • Using the largest multi-locus data set known to date, we investigated genetic differentiation of early modern humans, human admixture and migration events, and relationships among ancestries and language groups. (nature.com)
  • It is now possible to trace the migratory paths of anatomically modern humans using genetic data. (nature.com)
  • Initial efforts to characterize the movement of early humans in relation to ancestry grouped populations according to five geographical regions: Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe/the Middle East/Central Asia/South Asia, East Asia, Oceania, and the Americas 9 . (nature.com)
  • Human genetic variation is the genetic differences in and among populations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Even monozygotic twins (who develop from one zygote) have infrequent genetic differences due to mutations occurring during development and gene copy-number variation. (wikipedia.org)
  • Although a small number of genetic variants are found more frequently in certain geographic regions or in people with ancestry from those regions, this variation accounts for a small portion (~15%) of human genome variability. (wikipedia.org)
  • The study of human genetic variation has evolutionary significance and medical applications. (wikipedia.org)
  • In medicine, study of human genetic variation may be important because some disease-causing alleles occur more often in certain population groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • There are at least three reasons why genetic variation exists between populations. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] The second main cause of genetic variation is due to the high degree of neutrality of most mutations. (wikipedia.org)
  • Review some of the concepts such as "non-concordance" and "within-group vs. between group variation. (123helpme.com)
  • Dan also claimed small mutational genetic changes accumulate to evolve new organisms. (ubc.ca)
  • 0.001) according to the F test (ANOVA), but with no significant difference between the right and left sides. (bvsalud.org)
  • The goal: to assess the proportion of West African genetic ancestry in response to antihypertensive medication, BP control, and CVD outcomes. (aacc.org)
  • Investigators genotyped 106 biallelic ancestry informative markers to develop West African ancestry proportion and used linear mixed-effect modeling to assess BP and kidney function across tertiles of genetic West African ancestry proportion, in the trial's follow-up stage. (aacc.org)
  • Our study objectives were to assess the evidence for genetic involvement in the rate of lung function decline in a population of firefighters. (cdc.gov)
  • Over time, however, the researchers did not find any significant differences in long-term trajectories of BP, kidney function changes, and left ventricular mass across tertiles of West African ancestry proportion. (aacc.org)
  • There was no difference in the number of antihypertensive agents required to achieve target BP control across the West African ancestry distribution," reported the study authors. (aacc.org)
  • Most investigators also agree that differences in educational opportunities play an important role, though some believe that the main basis of the difference is hereditary. (britannica.com)
  • My research is on the translational application of next-generation sequencing technologies to breast cancer care: (1) the value of hereditary cancer genetic panel testing in clinical practice, (2) the mechanisms by which inherited genetic variants lead to breast cancer development, and (3) the analysis of somatic tumor sequencing data to inform understanding of breast tumorigenesis, metastasis, and development of resistance in response to therapeutics. (stanford.edu)
  • This egalitarian ethos, Herrnstein and Murray argue, cannot accommodate biologically based individual differences. (wikipedia.org)
  • Future studies in firefighters have been proposed to evaluate the interaction between exposure to products of combustion and genetic polymorphisms in relation to decline in lung function. (cdc.gov)
  • Despite this, modern genetic studies have found substantial average genetic differences across human populations in traits such as skin colour, bodily dimensions, lactose and starch digestion, high altitude adaptions, and predisposition to developing particular diseases. (wikipedia.org)
  • In contrast, parents wanted genetic testing for behavioural traits to be available even in the absence of proved medical treatments. (bmj.com)
  • A second important process is genetic drift, which is the effect of random changes in the gene pool, under conditions where most mutations are neutral (that is, they do not appear to have any positive or negative selective effect on the organism). (wikipedia.org)
  • Genetic basis for a lower prevalence of deficient CYP2D6 oxidative drug metabolism phenotypes in black Americans. (jci.org)
  • The contemporary difference between white and Black racial mean IQ is about 10 points. (freethoughtblogs.com)
  • Wouldn't it be just as sensible, in the case of black men, to define their "group" as the group of college-educated, upper income professionals? (blogspot.com)
  • He says that car salesman are acting rationally, based on the fact that black men-as a group-like to be seen overpaying for cars. (blogspot.com)
  • In literature, the expression "white gaze" communicates an intended white reader, and the racial bias that confines black characters to marginal or non-existent representations in white narratives. (lu.se)
  • The field of public health explains these racial disparities by implicating multiple adverse social determinants of health, including poverty, residential overcrowding, lack of health insurance, overrepresentation in the essential workforce, and systemic racism (3-5). (cdc.gov)
  • [ 7 ] Using a cross-sectional design, the authors compared children living on farms to those in a reference group with respect to the prevalence of asthma and to the diversity of microbial exposure. (medscape.com)
  • The studies found that children who lived on farms had a lower prevalence of asthma and atopy and were exposed to a greater variety of environmental microorganisms than children in the reference group. (medscape.com)
  • [ 18 ] For instance, VDBP levels were significantly lower in blacks than in whites when using the monoclonal antibody immunoassay, whereas no racial differences were detected when using polyclonal antibody immunoassay or proteomics. (medscape.com)
  • One idea that was taken into belief was racial standing based on skull size and features. (123helpme.com)
  • This pseudoscience is technically not the same as racism , which is the belief that one or more of these various groups is "superior" or "inferior" to one or more others, usually in some vague, undefined way. (rationalwiki.org)
  • Directed content analysis identified participants' explanatory frameworks for racial disparities in COVID-19-related illness and death. (cdc.gov)
  • All participants were informed that behavioural genetic testing was the only hypothetical genetic test in our script and it was presented as the last condition. (bmj.com)
  • Focus group participants were recruited through various community institutions in the southside of Chicago and nearby suburbs. (bmj.com)
  • Supplemented 2000 IU/d vitamin D 3 raised 25(OH)D and 25(OH)D Bio but was unable to correct deficiency in 25% of Chinese participants, which might be partially attributed to the effect of genetic modification. (medscape.com)
  • Race categories are often used as ethnic intensifiers, with the aim of justifying the exploitation of one group by another. (123helpme.com)
  • Race is an idea that has become so fixed in American society that there is no room for open-mindedness when challenging the idea of racial categories. (123helpme.com)
  • Over time, race began to morph into a term specifically referring to groups of people living in North America (i.e. (123helpme.com)
  • Race represented a new way to illustrate human difference as well as a way to socially structure society (Smedley & Smedley, 2005). (123helpme.com)
  • When he says that it may be "sensible to ascribe the group's average characteristics to each member of the group," the "group" he's talking about is race. (blogspot.com)
  • The short answer to that question, I think, is that this is what racial prejudice is: it is the irrational elevation of race-based considerations over other, equally or more relevant factors. (blogspot.com)
  • The reality of race is that society is divided into racial categories that end up having an effect on it. (123helpme.com)
  • The fact that society believes that race is nothing more than a myth blinds people to the racial injustices that still take place. (123helpme.com)
  • Argues that agustin fuentes believes that race is a complete myth and that society is divided into racial categories that end up having an effect on it. (123helpme.com)
  • Their preferred labels include scientific racism (pre-2000), [note 1] race realism or racial realism (post-2000), [note 2] and human biodiversity or HBD (post-2010). (rationalwiki.org)
  • 33 shifting and contradictory, leading one prominent race theorist to define race as the "ultimate trope of difference", and as artificially and arbitrarily contrived to produce and maintain relations of power and subordination (Gates, 1986). (bvsalud.org)
  • Tape: The company 23andMe promises genetic information made easy. (uchicago.edu)
  • We explored the attitudes of parents and healthcare professionals toward behavioural genetic testing for violence. (bmj.com)
  • The attitudes of healthcare professionals and the lay public about genetic testing of children were elicited for a range of conditions through interviews with healthcare professionals and focus groups with parents. (bmj.com)
  • The healthcare professionals included both genetic professionals and paediatricians. (bmj.com)
  • The mystery of the ancestors of the Israeil people (living today in what was known as Palestine) is more easily explained by European colonial settlement movements rather than any effort to define some racial grouping. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • The statement added that "God's word rejects racism" and the conservative church had zero tolerance for racial feeling. (counter-currents.com)
  • To inform preventive and therapeutic strategies, continued research is needed to understand the factors that increase risk of progression from AP to CP and the importance of the interaction between genetic and environmental factors in this transition. (health.mil)
  • Oh, they're slipping up some: we've had the white Protestant work ethic and fixing the colored folk via genetic engineering so they'll be smart and a few other rifts in the lute, but generally at first glance they aren't raving bigots. (scienceblogs.com)
  • So I hereby bring you a new Facebook group uniting white supremacy with Jewish supremacy. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • In Toronto, it makes common cause with the Sons of Odin, a white supremacist group with roots in the European neo-Nazi world. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • this suggests that, as a person grows older, genetic factors become a more important determinant of intelligence, while environmental factors become less important. (britannica.com)
  • BiDil offers a good example of how sociocultural factors in disease causation may be overlooked as a result of an overly simplistic assumption of a racial and hence presumed genetic difference. (annfammed.org)
  • Purpose: The relative importance of genetic factors in common vitreomacular interface (VMI) abnormalities is unknown. (bvsalud.org)
  • This clinical trial is a Phase 1-2, open-label, sequential-group, dose-escalation and cohort-expansion study evaluating the safety, pharmacokinetics (PK), pharmacodynamics, and antitumor activity of Zotatifin (eFT226) in subjects with selected advanced solid tumor malignancies. (stanford.edu)
  • This difference affects how people perceive their own health risks and their support for policies that address health disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • Face it people and face it Israelis we are all some kind of genetic amalgam. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • The Israeli people are a political reality, not a genetic reality. (richardsilverstein.com)
  • The ministry demanded Trump "proclaim a national day of 'Mourning Against Racial Injustice' on June 19, the traditional day of celebration for African-Americans over the end of slavery, where flags will be flown at half-mast. (counter-currents.com)
  • Ethnicity was classified into 3 groups: na- lations have been reported, from 1.07% in tive Fars, Turkman and Sistani. (who.int)
  • Differences between individuals, even closely related individuals, are the key to techniques such as genetic fingerprinting. (wikipedia.org)
  • Further research is needed on the use of communication strategies based on lay individuals' explanatory frameworks for COVID-19-related racial disparities to enhance support for equitable public policy. (cdc.gov)
  • He suggests that what has been interpreted as a racial divide is not true but merely make-believe. (123helpme.com)
  • Isosorbide and hydralazine in a fixed-dose combination (BiDil) has provoked controversy as the first drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration marketed for a single racial-ethnic group, African Americans, in the treatment of congestive heart failure. (annfammed.org)
  • The media has covered the drug approval process extensively before and after a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory committee recommended approval of BiDil for the specific indication of congestive heart failure in African Americans-the first drug to be approved for a single racial group. (annfammed.org)
  • There were also significant differences in microbial composition in dust samples and in innate immune cells between the two groups of children. (medscape.com)
  • Nevertheless, theories of inherited differences in IQ between racial groups have been found to be without basis. (britannica.com)
  • Spearman's introduction of the general factor of intelligence and other early advances in research on intelligence are discussed along with a consideration of links between intelligence testing and racial politics. (wikipedia.org)
  • A historical review shows that genetic research into violence has been rife with misunderstanding. (bmj.com)
  • NORA Symposium 2006: Research Makes a Difference! (cdc.gov)
  • Our long-term commitment to racial justice and reconciliation is embedded in our identity as baptized followers of Jesus. (counter-currents.com)
  • This work identifies a need for improved health communication about racial disparities in COVID-19-related illness and death. (cdc.gov)
  • Serial founder effects and past small population size (increasing the likelihood of genetic drift) may have had an important influence in neutral differences between populations. (wikipedia.org)
  • This could explain racial differences in drug effects and disease risk. (jci.org)
  • Difference in physical frame and incidents of side effects are some of the purported reasons, but a scientifically convincing basis is lacking. (debito.org)
  • Properly administered IQ tests are not demonstrably biased against social, economic, ethnic, or racial groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • And is the author of a new book, The Genetic Lottery, why DNA matters for social equality? (uchicago.edu)
  • Australoid: those from Australia, Melanesian islands * Caucasoid: Europe, North Africa, South west Asia * Mongoloid: East Asia, Siberia, the Americas * Negroid: Central and Southern Africa * Native Americans * Polynesians The scientific justification for these six groups was that members of these groups shared similar physical characteristics and originated in a particular region of the world. (123helpme.com)