Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Study of HLA antigens of the Martinican population Tissue Antigens Volume 26, Issue 1 (July 1985) pages 1–11 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1985.tb00928.x Nicole Monplaisir Blood Transfusion Center of Martinique Ignez Valette Blood Transfusion Center of Martinique Virginia Lepage Groupe de Recherches d’Immunogenetique de la Transplatation Humaine, INSERM – U 93, Paris, France Veronique Dijon Blood Transfusion Center…

  • The social and economic circumstances of mixed ethnicity children in the UK: findings from the Millennium Cohort Study Ethnic and Racial Studies First Published online: 2011-03-10 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.556745 Lidia Panico, Research Student Department for Epidemiology and Public Health University College London James Y. Nazroo, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Cathie Marsh Centre for…

  • Race and health care: problems with using race to classify, assess, and treat patients University of Texas May 2010 64 pages Atalie Nitibhon Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Affairs Though racial classifications…

  • Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health Demography Volume 48, Number 1 pages 127-152 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-010-0005-0 Jenifer L. Bratter, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University Bridget K. Gorman, Associate Professor of Sociology Rice University How do self-identified multiracial adults fit into documented patterns of racial health disparities? We assess whether the…

  • The “Melting Pot” A Myth The Journal of Heridity Volume 8, Number 3 (March 1917) pages 99-105 Study of Members of Oldest American Families Shows that the Type is Still Very Diverse—No Amalgamation Going on to Produce a Strictly American Sub-Type—Characteristics of the Old American Stock America as “The Melting Pot” of peoples is a…

  • The Mulatto Problem The Journal of Heredity Volume 16, Number 8 (August 1925) pages 281-286 Ernest Dodge Washington, D. C. The numerous races and subraces of mankind could hardly have maintained their distinct existence to so late a date in history save for the geographical barrier generally found between different stocks. The only other bulwarks against…

  • Skin Color of Mulattoes Journal of Heridity Volume 5, Number 12 (December 1914) pages 556-558 Charles B. Davenport, Director Department of Experimental Evolution (Carnegie Institution of Washington) Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York Apparently Four Factors Involved—Segregation in Second Generation—Skin Pigment Developed After Birth—No Correlation Between Color of Skin and Curliness of Hair in…

  • Hybrid Types of the Human Race: Racial Mixture as a Cause of Conspicuous Morphological Changes of the Facial-type The Journal of Heredity Volume 12, Number 6 (June 1921) pages 274-280 Herman Lundborg (1868-1943) Race-Biological Institution, Uppsala, Sweden It has been possible for recent hereditary research to show that some racial qualities are inherited according to Mendel’s…

  • Another Woolly-Hair Mutation in Man The Journal of Heredity Volume 25, Number 9 (September 1934) pages 337-340 C. Ph. Schokking Rotterdam, Holland A Dutch peasant family living near Leiden carries a dominant gene for a type of woolly hair characteristic of the Negro races. This is not to be explained as due to race crossing…

  • The Skin Color of Children from White By Near-White Marriages The Journal of Heredity Volume 38, Number 8 (August 1947) pages 233-234 Curt Stern (1902-1981), Professor of Zoology and Genetics [Read a biographical memoir by James V. Neel here.] University of California, Berkeley It is well known that the inheritance of color differences in negro-white crosses…