Genetics of the mammalian carbonic anhydrases

RE Tashian - Advances in genetics, 1992 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the genetics of the mammalian carbonic
anhydrases. The chapter provides information about various evolutionarily genes coding for …

Asian affinities and continental radiation of the four founding Native American mtDNAs.

A Torroni, TG Schurr, MF Cabell… - American journal of …, 1993 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The mtDNA variation of 321 individuals from 17 Native American populations was examined
by high-resolution restriction endonuclease analysis. All mtDNAs were amplified from a …

Population amalgamation and genetic variation: observations on artificially agglomerated tribal populations of Central and South America.

R Chakraborty, PE Smouse, JV Neel - American journal of human …, 1988 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The interpretation of data on genetic variation with regard to the relative roles of different
evolutionary factors that produce and maintain genetic variation depends critically on our …

The evolution of the advanced hominid brain [and Comments and Reply]

B Blumenberg, K Fristrup, RL Holloway… - Current …, 1983 - journals.uchicago.edu
A stochastic, hierarchical model for the evolution of the advanced hominid brain is
developed. The fossil and geological data date the event to 1.6-1.8 million years ago …

Epidemiologic studies among Amerindian populations of Amazonia. III. Intestinal parasitoses in newly contacted and acculturating villages.

DN Lawrence, JV Neel, SH Abadie… - The American journal …, 1980 - europepmc.org
The prevalences of intestinal parasites among the residents of three South American Indian
villages in the process of acculturation were compared with those found in earlier …

Glucose tolerance in two unacculturated Indian tribes of Brazil

RS Spielman, SS Fajans, JV Neel, S Pek, JC Floyd… - Diabetologia, 1982 - Springer
Plasma levels of glucose, insulin, growth hormone, and pancreatic polypeptide in response
to a standard oral glucose load were studied in the Yanomama and the Marubo, two …

Genetic studies on the Ticuna, an eniǵmatic tribe of Central Amazonas

JV Neel, H GERSHOWITZ… - Annals of Human …, 1980 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Ticuna are an Amerindian tribe of Central Amazonas, a key location in
theories of the peopling of eastern South America. The results of typing some 1760 …

Genetic diversity of the HLA-G coding region in Amerindian populations from the Brazilian Amazon: a possible role of natural selection

CT Mendes-Junior, EC Castelli, D Meyer… - Genes & …, 2013 - nature.com
HLA-G has an important role in the modulation of the maternal immune system during
pregnancy, and evidence that balancing selection acts in the promoter and 3′ UTR regions …

HLA‐G 14‐bp polymorphism at exon 8 in Amerindian populations from the Brazilian Amazon

CT Mendes‐Junior, EC Castelli, RT Simoes… - Tissue …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
HLA‐G (human leukocyte antigen‐G) plays an important role in the modulation of the
maternal immune system during pregnancy. HLA‐G alleles presenting a 14‐bp insertion at …

Ancestry informative markers in Amerindians from Brazilian Amazon

MR Luizon, CT Mendes‐Junior… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Ancestry informative markers (AIMs) are genetic loci with large frequency differences
between the major ethnic groups and are very useful in admixture estimation. However, their …