• Mauritius also contains substantial populations from continental Africa, China, France, and the East African island nation of Madagascar. (wikipedia.org)
  • 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)
  • Notice above that the first dimension of variation (PC1) separates the Europeans from all the African populations. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The African Americans are distributed almost perfectly along a line between the West African populations and the European Americans. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The mask is ill-suited for non-European populations, especially sub-Saharan Africans and East Asians. (femininebeauty.info)
  • Glioma incidence is highest in non-Hispanic Whites, and to date, glioma genome-wide association studies (GWAS) to date have only included European ancestry (EA) populations. (elsevierpure.com)
  • We estimated global and local ancestry using fastStructure and RFMix, respectively, using 1,000 genomes project reference populations. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Genome-wide association of polycystic ovary syndrome implicates alterations in gonadotropin secretion in European ancestry populations. (ox.ac.uk)
  • But why would sexual selection have been stronger among northern and eastern Europeans than among other human populations? (blogspot.com)
  • 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)
  • found through molecular dating analyses that both groups diverged from African mainland relatives long after the separation of Madagascar from Africa. (evolutionnews.org)
  • That is because almost no African American whose ancestors are not recent immigrants from Africa lack white ancestry. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Many of the species within Myotis - examples include Daubenton's bat M. daubentoni [shown below, photo by Gilles San Martin, from wikipedia] in Eurasia and the Little brown bat M. lucifugus in North America - are familiar to bat-watchers of Europe, northern Africa and North America. (scienceblogs.com)
  • But species within the group also occur across Asia to Javi, Bali, Borneo, the Philippines and Sulawesi, throughout Africa, in Australia ( M. macropus ), across the Caribbean, and in South America as far south as Patagonia. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Recent dna tests have proven the Scots are closely related to the Berbers of North Africa, whose own ancestry is still also unknown. (tripod.com)
  • 3. Both processes occurred within a relatively narrow time frame, i.e., after the arrival of modern humans in Europe c. 35,000 years ago. (blogspot.com)
  • This is much longer than the c. 35,000 years that modern humans have been in Europe. (blogspot.com)
  • African Americans and Hispanics in the US have varying proportions of EA, African (AA) and Native American ancestries (NAA). (elsevierpure.com)
  • 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)
  • We developed a framework for inference of germline variants from tumor panel sequencing, including imputation, quality control, inference of genetic ancestry, germline polygenic risk scores, and HLA alleles. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We showcase the feasibility and utility of our framework by analyzing 25,889 tumors and identifying the relationships between genetic ancestry, polygenic risk, and tumor characteristics that could not be studied with conventional on-target tumor data. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Here we map common genetic susceptibility loci in European ancestry women for the National Institutes of Health PCOS phenotype, which confers the highest risk for metabolic morbidities, as well as reproductive hormone levels. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Three loci reach genome-wide significance in the case-control meta-analysis, two novel loci mapping to chr 8p23.1 [Corrected] and chr 11p14.1, and a chr 9q22.32 locus previously found in Chinese PCOS. (ox.ac.uk)
  • If selection is relaxed at loci for hair and eye color, close to a million years must elapse to produce the hair- and eye-color variability that Europeans now display, including ~ 80,000 years for the current prevalence of red hair alone (Harding et al. (blogspot.com)
  • The allele frequencies of all three loci show significant differences between major continental groups (P (bvsalud.org)
  • In at least one case (that of Rickett's big-footed bat M. ricketii from China, Laos and India), this distinctive foot morphology led to the prediction of piscivory prior to its proper documentation by way of scat analysis (Ma et al . (scienceblogs.com)
  • It is now firmly established that in the first millennium BC, India had close contacts with countries from Greece, in the west up to China in the east. (keywen.com)
  • Finally, regional trade between South and East Asia, which was always low, is growing - and mainly between India and China. (keywen.com)
  • The researchers found that during the Kofun period, people with East Asian ancestry, most likely Han Chinese, migrated to Japan and added their genes to those of the Jomon and Yayoi. (archaeology.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)
  • 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)
  • Common allele of the CYP19 tetranucleotide TTTA repeat polymorphism in this population of Han Chinese women was 11R. (nel.edu)
  • The most common allele of the tetranucleotide TTTA repeat polymorphism in the forth intron of CYP19 gene in Han Chinese women is 11R, which was different with the previous study in European Caucasians. (nel.edu)
  • Allele 11R may be associated with PCOS in the population of Han Chinese women, and it may refrain from the hypercholesteremia of PCOS. (nel.edu)
  • Here, we present Summix, a method to efficiently deconvolute ancestry and provide ancestry-adjusted allele frequencies (AFs) from summary data. (omicsdi.org)
  • The SE reducing (more myopic) allele of rs10913877 (1q25.2 FAM163A) demonstrates the highest frequency in East Asians and much lower frequencies in Europeans and Africans (EAS = 0.60, EUR = 0.20, and AFR = 0.18). (bvsalud.org)
  • Evaluation of the association between the CYP19 Tetranucleotide (TTTA)n polymorphism and polycystic ovarian syndrome(PCOS) in Han Chinese women. (nel.edu)
  • The present study aims to evaluate the association between tetranucleotide TTTA repeat polymorphism in the CYP19 gene and PCOS among Han Chinese women. (nel.edu)
  • This CYP19 tetranucleotide TTTA repeat polymorphism is an ethnic and racial variant and moderately contributes to the pathogenesis of PCOS in the population of Han Chinese women. (nel.edu)
  • Hao C, Zhang N, Qu Q, Wang X, Gu H, Chen Z. Evaluation of the association between the CYP19 Tetranucleotide (TTTA)n polymorphism and polycystic ovarian syndrome(PCOS) in Han Chinese women. (nel.edu)
  • It turns out that the average African ancestral contribution to to African Americans is ~80%, with the balance being mostly European (there is some Native American, but not much). (discovermagazine.com)
  • Mauritian society includes people from many different ethnic groups as well as a significant population of mixed-race people who have ancestry from more than one ethnic group. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rodrigues and Chagossians are usually incorporated within the Creole ethnic group. (wikipedia.org)
  • Sino-Mauritians from the Hakka and other Chinese sub-ethnic/linguistic groups make up around three percent of Mauritian society. (wikipedia.org)
  • While the government officially groups Mauritians into four ethnic groups - Hindus, Muslims, Chinese, and General Population - the general population includes all who do not practice the Hindu or Muslim religion and are not Chinese by ethnicity. (wikipedia.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)
  • The lack of the letter 'F' in the pre-1987 Tagalog alphabet (Abakada) caused the letter 'P' to be substituted for 'F' , though the alphabets and/or writing scripts of some non-Tagalog ethnic groups included the letter 'F'. Upon official adoption of the modern, 28-letter Filipino alphabet in 1987, the term Filipino was preferred over Pilipino . (everipedia.org)
  • Both polymorphisms are largely confined to Europeans, especially those from the north and east. (blogspot.com)
  • 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)
  • Although several methods exist to estimate ancestry in individual-level data, methods to estimate ancestry proportions in summary data are lacking. (omicsdi.org)
  • Hemp Association Hemp (Cannabis sativa L. ) Cultivation in the Tai'an District of Shandong Province, Peoples Republic of China Robert C. (lagas.org)
  • This paper summarizes the history of hemp (Cannabis sativa L. cultivation and traditional use in the Tai'an District of Shandong Province in the People's Republic of China, and investigates the cultivation and processing techniques currently being employed to produce hemp ribbon and hemp seed. (lagas.org)
  • Dedicated to the advancement of Cannabis, through the dissemination of information December 1995Journal of the International Hemp Association Vol. 2 No. 2 Introduction Hemp is cultivated for its strong bast fiber throughout many of the numerous fertile inland valleys of Shandong Province, Peoples Republic of China. (lagas.org)
  • Hemp cultivation in China dates back more than 5,000 years and according to local legend, the peasant farmers of Shandong Province have grown hemp for more than a thousand years. (lagas.org)
  • OBJECTIVE: To assess the association of a government-led, multisectoral, and population-based intervention with reduced salt intake and blood pressure in Shandong Province, China. (cdc.gov)
  • DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: This cross-sectional study used data from the Shandong-Ministry of Health Action on Salt and Hypertension (SMASH) program, a 5-year intervention to reduce sodium consumption in Shandong Province, China. (cdc.gov)
  • By incorporating O*NET occupational information into the UK Biobank database, we performed GWAS analyses of six major job attainment characteristics-job complexity, autonomy, innovation, information demands, emotional demands, and physical demands-on 219,483 individuals of European ancestry. (bvsalud.org)
  • From the abstract: 'Precision prevention involves using the unique characteristics of a particular group to determine their responses to preventive interventions. (cdc.gov)
  • Phenomena like island biogeography or "ring species" may well demonstrate limited common ancestry. (evolutionnews.org)
  • HIV-1-specific T cell responses clustered in seven different regions of the HIV-1 genome in the Chinese cohort and in nine different regions in the caucasian cohort. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Within groups with ≥40% AA (AFR ≥0.4 ), and ≥15% NAA (AMR ≥0.15 ), genome-wide association between local EA and glioma was evaluated using logistic regression conditioned on global EA for all gliomas. (elsevierpure.com)
  • 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)
  • Despite a higher myopia prevalence in Asia, previous large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) were mostly based on European descendants. (bvsalud.org)
  • The 1986 squad was largely white and of European ancestry. (mtlnews24.com)
  • Data were technically validated using published algorithms to evaluate donor relatedness, ancestry, imputed HLA, and T1D genetic risk score. (nature.com)
  • This sample consisted of United States indidiuals with predominantly northern European ancestry. (yale.edu)
  • They are predominantly of northern and western European heritage. (yale.edu)
  • BACKGROUND: Chinese immigrants in Canada have a disproportionately high risk for hepatitis B compared with non-Hispanic Whites. (fhcrc.org)
  • Island nation in the northwest Pacific Ocean off the coast of east Asia, separated by the Sea of Japan from Russian Siberia, China, and Korea. (keywen.com)
  • Differences in the expressed HLA class I alleles effect the differential clustering of HIV type 1-specific T cell responses in infected Chinese and caucasians. (ox.ac.uk)
  • In his posts on this topic Ta-Nehisi repeatedly points to the real diversity in physical type and ancestry among African Americans, despite acknowledging implicitly the shared preponderant history. (discovermagazine.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)
  • 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)
  • DNA barcoding of Chinese snakes reveals hidden diversity and conservation needs. (academictree.org)
  • Today, a significant proportion of Creoles are of African descent with varying amounts of French and Indian ancestry. (wikipedia.org)
  • Characterizing the admixed African ancestry of African Americans My own inclination has been to not get bogged down in the latest race and IQ controversy because I don't have that much time, and the core readership here is probably not going to get any new information from me, since this is not an area of hot novel research. (discovermagazine.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)
  • 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)
  • Compared to the unadjusted gnomAD AFs, Summix's ancestry-adjusted AFs more closely match respective African and Latinx reference samples. (omicsdi.org)
  • HIV-1-specific T cell responses were characterized in 32 HIV-1-infected individuals of Chinese origin and compared to 34 infected caucasians using 410 overlapping peptides spanning the entire HIV-1 clade B consensus sequence in an IFN-gamma ELISpot assay. (ox.ac.uk)
  • Then we focus on the 40,000 years of genetically homogeneous European civilization that has been marginalized by a politically correct shift from physical to cultural anthropology, resulting in the insertion of racial animosity and huge handicaps for scientists who wish to connect the past with the present. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • Discovery of a wild, genetically pure Chinese giant salamander creates new conservation opportunities. (academictree.org)
  • We consider where the manufactured problems of multiculturalism have created blinding ethnocentrism within Europe and opened the door for a dehumanizing transformation of the White European collective. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • Another study found that White women endorsed significantly higher somatic symptoms than Chinese American women. (illinois.edu)
  • The puzzle is not resolved if Europeans turned white because of positive selection for lighter skin, as opposed to relaxation of selection for darker skin. (blogspot.com)
  • The approximately 20,000 Chinese laborers upon whose physical sacrifices the historic Transcontinental Railroad was built are notable not only for their backbreaking labor, but for their erasure from the photos and celebrations of this historic feat. Hired to do much of the hazardous work often shunned by white laborers, the Chinese workers found themselves deliberately excluded from the highly public commemoration upon the railway's completion. (asianstudies.org)
  • Franco-Mauritians (Mauritians of French ancestry) form around two percent of the population. (wikipedia.org)
  • The exception is that the general population does not include the Christian Chinese, although most practice a mix of Christianity and traditional Chinese religions. (wikipedia.org)
  • Population Estimates by Sex and Age Group (01.VII.2012) (Based on the results of the 2011 Population Census. (wikipedia.org)
  • Population by Sex and Age Group (Census 04.VII.2019) (Excludes the islands of St. Brandon and Agalega. (wikipedia.org)
  • Studies providing insights into HIV-1 pathogenesis in infected Chinese are urgently needed to support the design and testing of an effective HIV-1 vaccine for this population. (ox.ac.uk)
  • An ancestry informative marker panel design for individual ancestry estimation of Hispanic population using whole exome sequencing data. (omicsdi.org)
  • Note that OMB category ASIAN is available for United States population groups. (bvsalud.org)
  • A major population group distinguished by classification according to physical features. (bvsalud.org)
  • The NHANES II sample was selected so that certain population groups thought to be at high risk of malnutrition (persons with low incomes, preschool children and the elderly) were oversampled. (cdc.gov)
  • Use of nonlinear gene-BMI interactions may enhance BP gene discovery efforts in individuals of European ancestry. (wustl.edu)
  • Thin-plate spline analysis is used to illustrate visually how sample faces, including northwestern European averages, differ from Marquardt's mask. (femininebeauty.info)
  • 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)
  • Recent years have seen a steady flow of foreign workers into the textile industry (primarily Chinese women), the construction industry (primarily Indian workers), and harbor-related activities (primarily Taiwanese men). (wikipedia.org)
  • The mask also appears to approximate the face shape of masculinized European women. (femininebeauty.info)
  • The creole community also includes the country's 'Metisse' or mixed-race communities which consist of people with any admixture of the island's other groups. (wikipedia.org)
  • This Review contains major "East"- related terms, short phrases and links grouped together in the form of Encyclopedia article. (keywen.com)
  • Modern turtles are divided into two major groups, the Pleurodira (side necked turtles) and Cryptodira (hidden necked turtles), which differ in the way the head retracts. (wikipedia.org)
  • citation needed] Along with the French European community, there is a small number of British expatriates or people of British descent in Mauritius. (wikipedia.org)
  • If of European descent, more likely to be lactose intolerant. (libsyn.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)
  • Although we should not overlook the correlation between "race" and socio-economic inequality involving factors such as health care and medical care, such discussion has usually arisen within the context of some North American and European societies. (mixedracestudies.org)
  • Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure. (lookformedical.com)
  • As a Science journalist commented: "the implication is that our European ancestors were brown-skinned for tens of thousands of years" (Gibbons, 2007). (blogspot.com)
  • Around 17,000 years ago, sea levels rose, submerging the land bridge and isolating the Jomon from continental Asia for millennia, until agriculturalists arrived starting around 3,000 years ago and developed the Yayoi culture. (archaeology.org)
  • Between 30 and 40 million years ago, Australia and South America were connected by a continental land bridge, which is now Antarctica, to form the supercontinent known as Gondwana. (evolutionnews.org)
  • 40 years) affected and 804 unaffected carriers of European ancestry. (ox.ac.uk)
  • citation needed] They are descendants of French settlers, comprising the largest group of European origin. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mask appears to trace best the outline of an individual with European ancestry. (femininebeauty.info)
  • Tanstaafl first describes his personal evolution of unraveling the mainstream, politically correct discourse that has propagandized the origin of Europeans and reduced Whiteness to a nonexistent social construct. (theoccidentalobserver.net)
  • Very ancient - indeed, the oldest European - fossil marsupials have been discovered in France. (evolutionnews.org)