African Peoples
Mostrando 13-18 de 18 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Composição genética de quatros populações remanescentes de quilombos do Brasil com base em microssatélites e marcadores de ancestralidade
The Brazilian population is very peculiar in relation to other world populations since its formation involved the admixture of many peoples that came to Brazil since 1500, specially Amerindians, Africans and Europeans. At the present, there are in Brazil many rural semi-isolated communities identified as remnants of quilombos, which were constituted mainly b
Publicado em: 2006
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14. Ribeiro's typology, genomes, and Spanish colonialism, as viewed from Gran Canaria and Colombia
Four biallelic and six multiallelic Y-chromosome polymorphisms were investigated in 59 Gran Canarian, 60 North African Berber and 46 Spanish subjects. These new data were merged with equivalent literature information to obtain the parental Y-chrosomomal contribution in Gran Canarians, Colombians, and Venezuelans. The results were then compared, for Gran Cana
Genetics and Molecular Biology. Publicado em: 2004
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15. Genetic Variation and Disorders in Peoples of African Origin
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16. Rheumatoid arthritis in an urban South African Negro population.
(1) An epidemiological study of an urban South African Negro community has been carried out in Johannesburg. Altogether 964 respondents were examined and in each case radiographs of the hands and feet were obtained. Rheumatoid factor tests were carried out on 404 serum samples. (2) Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) was graded 'definite' or 'probable' on the basis of
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17. Mitochondrial diversity and the origins of African and European cattle.
The nature of domestic cattle origins in Africa are unclear as archaeological data are relatively sparse. The earliest domesticates were humpless, or Bos taurus, in morphology and may have shared a common origin with the ancestors of European cattle in the Near East. Alternatively, local strains of the wild ox, the aurochs, may have been adopted by peoples i
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18. Rheumatoid arthritis in a rural South African Negro population.
(1) An epidemiological study of a rural African community has been carried out in the Western Transvaal. Altogether 801 respondents over 15 years old were examined; radiographs of the hands and feet were obtained in all these individuals. Serological tests for rheumatoid factor were carried out on 516 blood samples. (2) The diagnosis of inflammatory polyarth