Abstract Alpha-1-Antitrypsin deficiency (AATD), caused by SERPINA1 mutations, is one of
the most prevalent Mendelian disorders among individuals of European descend. However …

This work was undertaken to ascertain to what degree the physical appearance of a
Brazilian individual was predictive of genomic African ancestry. Using a panel of 10 …

Abstract During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (TAST), around twelve million Africans were
enslaved and forcibly moved from Africa to the Americas and Europe, durably influencing …

The population of Brazil, formed by extensive admixture between Amerindians, Europeans
and Africans, is one of the most variable in the world. We have recently published a study …

The levels of haplotype diversity within the lineages defined by two single-nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs)(− 13910 C/T and− 22018 G/A) associated with human lactase …

O objetivo deste estudo é apresentar uma reconstrução da fonologia e do léxico do
protocrioulo do Golfo da Guiné (PGG). O cenário de surgimento do PGG remonta ao período …

The haplogroup identities of 800 mtDNAs randomly and systematically selected to be
representative of the population of Puerto Rico were determined by restriction fragment …

Especially since Ferraz (1974, 1975, 1979), it has been generally accepted that the four Gulf
of Guinea creoles (GGCs)—Santome (ST), Angolar (ANG), Lung'ie (LU), and Fa d'Ambô (FA) …

Cabo Verde e São Tomé e Príncipe foram as primeiras sociedades crioulas do mundo
atlântico. Inicialmente, em muitos aspetos, a colonização dos dois arquipélagos pelos …

Creole languages have generally not figured prominently in cross-linguistic studies of word-
prosodic typology. In this paper, we present a phonological analysis of the prosodic system …