The objective of this study was to estimate the prevalence of autistic spectrum disorder
(ASD) and identify its clinical characterization, and medical conditions in a paediatric …

The first documents mentioning Jewish people in Iberia are from the Visigothic period. It was
also in this period that the first documented anti-Judaic persecution took place. Other …

Abstract Modern day Latin America resulted from the encounter of Europeans with the
indigenous peoples of the Americas in 1492, followed by waves of migration from Europe …

Introduction The Faroe Islands are a small archipelago located in the North Atlantic likely
colonized by a small group of founders sometime between 50 and 300 CE. Post …

Background Innate immune system is the first line of research when studying immune
response to diverse infections and autoimmune/inflammatory diseases. This immune …

We determined the Y‐chromosomal composition of the population of the Azores Islands
(Portugal), by analyzing 20 binary polymorphisms located in the non‐recombining portion of …

In order to obtain a better understanding of the genetic structure of the Azorean population, a
specificity and spatial distribution analysis was performed, based on 2,454 different …

Abstract Knowledge of population ancestry from genetic markers is essential, for example, to
understand the history of human migration and to carry out admixture and association …

Background: Glucuronidation reactions, catalyzed by uridine-diphosphate
glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) enzymes, constitute a detoxification process that adds …

Background: The Azores are an archipelago located in the North Atlantic Ocean (parallel 38)
composed of nine islands, dispersed over three geographical groups: The Eastern group …