OrganismsDiseasesAnalytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and EquipmentPhenomena and ProcessesDisciplines and OccupationsHumanitiesInformation ScienceNamed GroupsHealth CareGeographicals
American Native Continental Ancestry GroupAfrican Continental Ancestry GroupEuropean Continental Ancestry GroupAsian Continental Ancestry GroupAfrican AmericansOceanic Ancestry GroupGenealogy and HeraldryAfricaPolymorphism, Single NucleotideGenetics, PopulationTrypanosomiasis, AfricanGenotypeGenome-Wide Association StudySouth AfricaHaplotypesCentral African RepublicGene FrequencyGenetic VariationGene PoolPhylogenyGenetic Predisposition to DiseaseIndians, South AmericanAfrican Swine Fever VirusEthnic GroupsTrinidad and TobagoHispanic AmericansAfrica, WesternGenetic LociLinkage DisequilibriumAllelesAfrican Swine FeverGenome, Human
PopulationsAmericansAdmixtureHumansSouth AfricaGenetic ancestryGenome-wideClinicalProportionsPhenotypicSNPsPrevalenceIndigenous2016Ethnic groupsProcessesPopulation GroupsPatientsSignificantlyAdultsDescentHispanicEuropeanCorrelationCharacterizePolymorphismRiskIndividualsTraceHeterogeneityStudyMedicineRelationshipsStreptococciSupportJournalWomenInfectionMiddle EastCaribbeanMigration
Populations10
  • CSA Meeting of Specialists on the Basic Psychology of African and Madagascan Populations, Tananarive, 27 August-3 September 1959 : recommendations and reports / report by S. Biesheuvel. (who.int)
  • Report on the CSA meeting of specialists on the basic psychological structures of African and Madagascan populations, Tananarive, 27 August-3 September, 1959 : synthetic report / prepared under the supervision of S. Biesheuvel, in accordance with Recommendation XI (2) of the CSA Meeting of Specialists. (who.int)
  • Also, like the majority of the Caribbean, there are still sizeable populations of unmixed black people and a large amount of undeniably African cultural influences. (wikipedia.org)
  • The best evidence supports 21 ancestries that delineate genetic structure of present-day human populations. (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Global ancestry analysis based on high-throughput genotyping in admixed populations can be used to test this hypothesis, while admixture mapping can map candidate protective genes. (hal.science)
  • Because of extensive admixture among these various groups, the Brazilian population shows great variability in terms of Populations on different continents vary considerably in their skin pigmentation, phenotypic features, and genomic structure [2]. (cdc.gov)
Americans5
  • A small number of candidate gene SNPs reveal continental ancestry in African Americans. (icompbio.net)
  • Using genetic data from an obesity candidate gene study of self-reported African Americans and European Americans, we investigated the number of Ancestry Informative Markers (AIMs) and candidate gene SNPs necessary to infer continental ancestry. (icompbio.net)
  • African Americans and Hispanics in the US have varying proportions of EA, African (AA) and Native American ancestries (NAA). (elsevierpure.com)
  • We assessed whether EA was associated with glioma in African Americans and Hispanics. (elsevierpure.com)
  • Guyanese patients of 31.6%, twice that of whites and 65% higher than that of African Americans (2). (cdc.gov)
Admixture4
  • 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)
  • By focusing on underlying ancestries rather than samples, confounding due to recent admixture is removed. (nature.com)
  • Patterns of genetic ancestry and admixture for a cohort of 624 individuals from Medellín were compared to disease risk inferred via polygenic risk scores (PRS). (frontiersin.org)
  • Global ancestry was ascertained through ADMIXTURE and used in a fine-matched corrected association study, while local ancestry was inferred by the RFMix algorithm. (hal.science)
Humans1
  • Genetic and archaeological studies have established a sub-Saharan African origin for anatomically modern humans with subsequent migrations out of Africa. (nature.com)
South Africa1
  • METHODS: In a cohort of 853 young women age 18-25 in rural Mpumalanga province, South Africa, we evaluated executive function with three non-verbal cognitive tests: I. a rule-finding test, II. (ox.ac.uk)
Genetic ancestry5
  • The goal of this study was to analyze the effect of ethnicity and genetic ancestry on observed disease prevalence and predicted disease risk in Colombia. (frontiersin.org)
  • African genetic ancestry is most strongly correlated with predicted disease risk, whereas European and Native American ancestry show weaker effects. (frontiersin.org)
  • From ∼ 1000 individuals of a founder population in Quebec, we reveal a substantial impact of the environment on the transcriptome and clinical endophenotypes, overpowering that of genetic ancestry. (nature.com)
  • Air pollution impacts gene expression and pathways affecting cardio-metabolic and respiratory traits, when controlling for genetic ancestry. (nature.com)
  • Worldwide, its incidence has increased progressively over the last a result of genetic ancestry. (cdc.gov)
Genome-wide2
  • After attributing a regional and/or continental ancestry to each individual using genome-wide polymorphism data, we are able to capture the effect of different environmental exposures on gene expression and health-related traits, while simultaneously controlling for genetic relatedness and migration. (nature.com)
  • 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)
Clinical2
  • Diagnosis rests on a combination of clinical manifestations that can develop in relation to group A streptococcal pharyngitis. (medscape.com)
  • Group A Streptococcus ( Streptococcus pyogenes ) is thought to cause the myriad of clinical diseases in which the host's immunologic response to bacterial antigens cross-react with various target organs in the body, resulting in molecular mimicry. (medscape.com)
Proportions1
  • Proportions of African and European ancestry were assessed with STRUCTURE (K 2), using 276 AIMs. (icompbio.net)
Phenotypic1
  • Drawing from this founding population of individuals with largely French ancestry, we selected 1007 individuals to determine mechanisms by which genomes, the environment, and their interactions contribute to phenotypic variation. (nature.com)
SNPs1
  • OSB-PL10 had significantly lower expression in Africans than Europeans, while for RXRA several SNPs may differentially regulate its transcription between Africans and Europeans. (hal.science)
Prevalence3
  • Population distributions of Colombia's three major ethnic groups - Mestizo, Afro-Colombian, and Indigenous - were compared to disease prevalence and socioeconomic indicators. (frontiersin.org)
  • Disease prevalence co-varies across geographic regions, consistent with the regional distribution of ethnic groups. (frontiersin.org)
  • The relationships between ethnicity and disease prevalence do not show an overall correspondence with the relationships between ancestry and disease risk. (frontiersin.org)
Indigenous1
  • However, in the Spanish Caribbean, the majority of the mixed-race population is made up of mulattos/tri-racials, being of mixed white Spanish, black West African, and indigenous Taino ancestry, who also make up the majority of the total population overall, especially in the Dominican Republic, as opposed to mestizos in many continental Hispanic countries. (wikipedia.org)
20161
  • Rudman, LA & McLean, MC 2016, ' The role of appearance stigma in implicit racial ingroup bias ', Group Processes and Intergroup Relations , vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 374-393. (researchwithrutgers.com)
Ethnic groups1
  • Ethnic groups can display differential genetic susceptibility to infectious diseases. (hal.science)
Processes1
Population Groups1
  • The old descriptor ANIMALS will be changed to ANIMAL POPULATION GROUPS. (bvsalud.org)
Patients2
  • In a study of 15 patients with rheumatic heart disease and a control group of 10 patients who had been exposed to group A streptococci but did not develop either acute rheumatic fever or rheumatic heart disease, 13 genes were differentially expressed in the same direction (predominantly decreased) between the two groups. (medscape.com)
  • The patients were divided into 4 groups (Table): 1) pa- and Brazil ( 1 - 3 ). (cdc.gov)
Significantly1
  • in both groups, reading scores decreased significantly from kindergarten to second grade and math scores decreased significantly for non-immigrant children and marginally for immigrant children. (nyu.edu)
Adults1
  • We analyzed the contribution of common Neandertal variants to over 1000 electronic health record (EHR)-derived phenotypes in 28,000 adults of European ancestry. (icompbio.net)
Descent3
  • The Older Black Women's group at TRCC provides a safe healing space for mothers, grandmothers, elders of Black African, Afro-Caribbean or Black Canadian/American descent. (trccmwar.ca)
  • Objective The purpose of this study was to evaluate mean cephalometric measurements for a group of individuals of Afro-Brazilian descent using the Wylie-Johnson analysis, and to investigate the presence of sexual dimorphism. (bvsalud.org)
  • Conclusion Individuals of African descent had bimaxillary protrusion, a more acute interincisal angle, a larger inferior facial height, and a markedly convex profile. (bvsalud.org)
Hispanic3
  • In comparison to the predominantly black majority of the non-Hispanic Caribbean, but with similarities to the multi-racial continental areas of Latin America, mixed-race people are most dominant in this region. (wikipedia.org)
  • Results suggest that African American women were more likely to endorse somatic symptoms compared with White women and, in one instance Hispanic/Latinas. (illinois.edu)
  • Conclusions: A pattern emerged with African American and Hispanic/Latina women with depression or depressive symptoms more likely to report somatic symptoms compared with White women. (illinois.edu)
European4
  • The Spanish Caribbean also has higher Canarian influence compared to continental Latin America, making them the primary European ancestral group. (wikipedia.org)
  • Currently, the vast majority of genomic research cohorts are made up of participants with European ancestry. (frontiersin.org)
  • African ancestry is mostly positively correlated with disease risk, and European ancestry is mostly negatively correlated. (frontiersin.org)
  • Conclusions: Our results indicate that European ancestry is a risk factor for cutaneous melanoma. (cdc.gov)
Correlation1
  • We estimated correlation coefficients ranging from 0.522 to 0.962 between ancestries and language families or branches. (nature.com)
Characterize1
  • Social and economic factors that characterize the individual or group within the social structure. (lookformedical.com)
Polymorphism1
  • 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)
Risk5
  • Objectives: It is known that African American men have a greater risk of prostate cancer than white men. (edu.au)
  • We calculated the age-standardised incidence rates and relative risk for all black men, and black Caribbean and black African men versus white men. (edu.au)
  • The similar rates in black Caribbean and black African men suggest a common genetic aetiology, although migration may be associated with an increased risk attributable to a gene-environment interaction. (edu.au)
  • Executive function associated with sexual risk in young South African women: Findings from the HPTN 068 cohort. (ox.ac.uk)
  • CONCLUSIONS: These results demonstrate an association between low executive function and sexual risk in South African young women. (ox.ac.uk)
Individuals1
  • Independent of self-identified ethno-linguistic labels, the vast majority (97.3%) of individuals have mixed ancestry, with evidence of multiple ancestries in 96.8% of samples and on all continents. (nature.com)
Trace1
  • Most Indo-Guyanese trace their ancestry to the mid-1800s, when (East) Indian indentured servants were brought to Guyana, an English-speaking, continental West Indian country formerly known as British Guiana (1). (cdc.gov)
Heterogeneity1
  • 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)
Study1
  • In Study 2, Black American's pro-White bias was only eliminated when the attitude IAT represented their group as more attractive than Whites (i.e., when appearance stigma was reversed). (researchwithrutgers.com)
Medicine1
  • We discuss possible reasons for the divergent health effects of ethnicity and ancestry as well as the implication of our results for the development of precision medicine in Colombia. (frontiersin.org)
Relationships1
  • The relationships of groups of organisms as reflected by their genetic makeup. (lookformedical.com)
Streptococci2
  • Strains of group A streptococci that are heavily encapsulated and rich in M protein (signifying virulence in streptococcal strains) seem to be most likely to result in infection. (medscape.com)
  • Unusual group A streptococci emm types that are uncommon in the continental United States appear to play a significant role in the epidemiology of ARF in Hawaii. (medscape.com)
Support6
  • 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 Dené-Yeniseian language family as a genetically valid grouping. (nature.com)
  • TRCC runs a variety of peer support groups throughout the year. (trccmwar.ca)
  • Groups are available to folxs who are looking for support and connection with other survivors. (trccmwar.ca)
  • As the longest running support group of the centre, survivors in the group have been able to continue their healing over many years. (trccmwar.ca)
  • This group is ever-changing, while maintaining a sense of stability and support for its members. (trccmwar.ca)
  • WoMin has launched three activist guides to support women and communities across Africa in their struggles for climate justice and sustainable energy futures. (foe.org.au)
Journal1
Women2
  • WoMin, launched in October 2013, is an African gender and extractives alliance, which works alongside national and regional movements and popular organisations of women, mining-impacted communities and peasants, and in partnership with other sympathetic organisations. (foe.org.au)
  • The world is hurtling towards a climate crisis in which Africa and particularly peasant and working-class women will be hardest hit. (foe.org.au)
Infection2
  • Knockdown of OSBPL10 expression in THP-1 cells by two shRNAs followed by DENV2 infection tests led to a significant reduction in DENV replication, being a direct functional proof that the lower OSBPL10 expression profile in Africans protects this ancestry against dengue disease. (hal.science)
  • Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a sequela of streptococcal infection-typically following 2 to 3 weeks after group A streptococcal pharyngitis-that occurs most commonly in children and has rheumatologic, cardiac, and neurologic manifestations. (medscape.com)
Middle East1
  • Regions of major public health concern include the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, and some areas of Africa and South America. (medscape.com)
Caribbean3
  • The Spanish Caribbean (Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico) can be considered a separate subregion of Latin America, culturally distinct from both continental Spanish-speaking countries and the non-Spanish -speaking Caribbean. (wikipedia.org)
  • We investigated whether this was true for first-generation black Caribbean and black African men in the United Kingdom. (edu.au)
  • There was no strong evidence that the rates for black Caribbean differed from black African men. (edu.au)
Migration1
  • Using a graph-based model of gene flow to estimate migration events from ancestry-specific allele frequencies 37 , we find evidence for migration events in the distant past. (nature.com)