Hispanic/Latinos have been underrepresented in genome-wide association studies (GWAS)
for anthropometric traits despite their notable anthropometric variability, ancestry …

Latin American populations stem from the admixture of Europeans, Africans and Native
Americans, which started over 400 years ago and had lasted for several centuries. Extreme …

Nonrandom mating in human populations has important implications for genetics and
medicine as well as for economics and sociology. In this study, we performed an integrative …

There are. 50 million people in the United States who identify themselves as Hispanic, and
we have. 20 countries with Hispanic population in Latin America (LATAM). Lung cancer is a …

The genetic background of Brazilians encompasses Amerindian, African, and European
components as a result of the colonization of an already Amerindian inhabited region by …

Abstract Background Hepatitis B virus (HBV) surface antigen (HBsAg) screening in blood
banks reduced the risk of HBV transmission through transfusion. However, the detection of …

Fluctuating and directional asymmetry are aspects of morphological variation widely used to
infer environmental and genetic factors affecting facial phenotypes. However, the genetic …

Up to 40% of rare disorders (RD) present facial dysmorphologies, and visual assessment is
commonly used for clinical diagnosis. Quantitative approaches are more objective, but …

Finally, perhaps one of the most significant problems not only of MS, but of health sciences
in general, is how we should move forward with the categorization of race and ethnicity …

We report a genome-wide association study of facial features in> 6000 Latin Americans
based on automatic landmarking of 2D portraits and testing for association with inter …