Browsing by Subject "Populations"

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    • Anthropometry, body shape in early-life and risk of premenopausal breast cancer among Latin American women: ... 
      His, Mathilde; Biessy, Carine; Torres Mejía, Gabriela; Ángeles Llerenas, Angélica; Alvarado Cabrero, Isabel; Sánchez, Gloria Inés; Borrero, Mauricio; Porras, Carolina; Rodríguez, Ana Cecilia; Garmendia Miguel, María Luisa; Olivier, Magali; Porter, Peggy L.; Lin, MingGang; Gunter, Marc J.; Romieu, Isabelle; Rinaldi, Sabina (Nature, 2020)
      Cumulating evidence in Caucasian women suggests a positive association between height and premenopausal breast cancer risk and a negative association with overall adiposity; however data from Latin America are scarce. We ...
    • Demographic history and selection at HLA loci in Native Americans 
      Single, Richard M.; Meyer, Diogo; Nunes, Kelly; Santos, Rodrigo; Hunemeier, Tábita; Maiers, Martin; Hurley, Carolyn K; Bedoya, Gabriel; Gallo, Carla; Hurtado, Ana Magdalena; Llop Romero, Elena; Petzl-Erler, Maria L.; Poletti, Giovanni; Rothhammer, Francisco; Tsuneto, Luiza; Klitz, William; Ruiz Linares, Andrés (Public Library Science, 2020)
      The American continent was the last to be occupied by modern humans, and native populations bear the marks of recent expansions, bottlenecks, natural selection, and population substructure. Here we investigate how this ...
    • Forensic identification of the keratin fibers of South American camelids by ambient ionization mass ... 
      Price, Erin; Larrabure, Dominique; Gonzales, Benito; McClure, Pamela; Espinoza, Edgard (Wiley, 2020)
      Rationale The keratin fleece of the endangered vicuna (Vicugna vicugna) commands a high value in international markets, and this trade has caused illegal poaching and a substantial decrease in vicuna populations. Morphological ...
    • Leaf litter is essential for seed survival of the endemic endangered tree pouteria splendens (Sapotaceae) ... 
      Sotes, Gastón J.; Bustamante Araya, Ramiro; Henríquez, Carolina Andrea (Copernicus Gesellschaft MBH, 2018)
      Pouteria splendens (A. DC.) Kuntze, the Chilean lucumo, is an endemic tree and the only member of the Sapotaceae family in Chile. It is considered an endangered species as a consequence of its restricted distribution and ...