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Scientists reveal sub-Saharan Africa's 4000-year legacy of past migrations (University of Oxford)
Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
Their study, to be published in the journal eLife, uncovers signatures of these admixture events through a large analysis of DNA from populations across the continent ... 'These findings show that groups from similar parts of Africa experienced admixture events at similar times and involving similar sources, suggesting that genetic variation in these areas of the continent has been shaped by shared historical events....
Study shows that black men with more West African genes have lower risk of obesity (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)
Edit Public Technologies 01 Jun 2016
Among black men, those with a high degree of West African genetic ancestry have less abdominal fat than those with a lower degree ... Genetic ancestry, or the ... The fraction of one's ancestry from West Africa varies considerably among African-Americans due to genetic admixture from other ancestral populations, such as Europeans or Native Americans....
Fernández is inaugural winner of diversity award from the Obesity Society (The University of Alabama ...
Edit Public Technologies 03 Sep 2015
(Source. The University of Alabama at Birmingham) ... Fernández joined UAB in August 2001, bringing special expertise in the application of statistical models to detect and disentangle genetic and environmental influences in obesity-related traits ... He uses the genetic admixture approach as a tool to decompose the genetic, social and cultural components underlying racial and ethnic differences in complex traits ... distributed by ... (noodl....
UNH Research: Species Lines Blur between Two Sparrows in New England’s Tidal Marshes (University of ...
Edit Public Technologies 31 Aug 2015
This also means that it is challenging to monitor the abundance/distribution of hybrids within natural populations without collecting genetic data ... Ornithological Advances in the article "Relationship of phenotypic variation and genetic admixture in the Saltmarsh-Nelson's sparrow hybrid zone." This material is based upon work that is supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, U.S....
Ancestry, admixture and fitness in Colombian genomes.
Edit Topix 26 Jul 2015
To insert individual citation into a bibliography in a word-processor, select your preferred citation style below and drag-and-drop it into the document. The human dimension of the Columbian Exchange entailed substantial genetic admixture between ancestral source populations from Africa, the Americas and Europe, which had evolved separately for many thousands of years ... ....
When modern Eurasia was born (Københavns Universitet)
Edit noodls 11 Jun 2015
10 June 2015 BRONZE AGE GENETICS. Modern European and Central Asian peoples are genetically speaking not more than a couple of thousand years old. It was during the Bronze Age that the last major chapters were written in the story of the genetic past of Europe and central Asia ... Both language and genetics have been with us all the way up to the present ... Here it is not genetic admixture we see, but rather a replacement of genes....
The Wonders of DNA
Edit Huffington Post 10 Jun 2015
Each of us gets half of our genetic material from Mom and half from Dad ... A DNA Circle uses genetics to bring together a group of people who already show they are related on paper ... Seeing an estimate of their regional genetic admixture -- the places in the world where their ancestors might have lived as recently as half a millennium ago -- might give them a sense of connection to ancestors that wouldn't be possible otherwise....
Race, genetics and ancestry
Edit The Examiner 18 Apr 2015
These results demonstrate the utility of ancestry-informative genetic markers and admixture methods and emphasize the need to be cautious when using pigmentation as a proxy of ancestry or when extrapolating the results from one admixed population to another(Parra, 2002) ... We investigated genetic admixture and developed a questionnaire to explore variables used in constructing racial identity in two cohorts....
American Society of Hematology Selects 2014 Minority Medical Student Award Program Class (ASH - American Society of Hematology)
Edit noodls 08 Sep 2014
(Source. ASH - American Society of Hematology). Published on. August 25, 2014 ... As part of the ASH MMSAP program, participants design and implement a hematology-related research project during an eight- to 12-week summer program ... Ambrose Campell, Saint Louis University ... Limits of non-African genetic admixture flanking the sickle mutation in an admixed SCD population Nicholas Hampilos, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine ... ....
New technique developed which can trace DNA back 1000 years
Edit The Times of India 02 May 2014
LONDON ... Genetic admixture occurs when individuals from two or more previously separated populations interbreed ... Elhaik said, "What we have discovered here is a way to find not where you were born but where your DNA was formed up to 1,000 years ago by modelling these admixture processes ... Discovery of a certain genotype might indicate the potential for a genetic disease and suggest that diagnostic testing be done ... ....
Now, know where your ancestors lived 1,000 years ago
Edit Newstrack India 01 May 2014
"What we have discovered here at the University of Sheffield is a way to find not where you were born - as you have that information on your passport - but where your DNA was formed up to 1,000 years ago by modelling these admixture ... Genetic admixture occurs when individuals from two or more previously separated populations begin interbreeding....
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