Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Making Sense of New Census Classifications for Race UCLA School of Public Health Magazine June 2007 page 31 STARTING WITH THE 2000 CENSUS, the federal government revised how it collects data on race and ethnicity—respondents were allowed to identify themselves as a member of more than one category (which 7 million opted to do), whereas…

  • Classification of Race and Ethnicity: Implications for Public Health Annual Review of Public Health Volume 24 (May 2003) pages 83-110 DOI: 10.1146/annurev.publhealth.24.100901.140927 Vickie M. Mays, Professor of Psychology and Professor of Health Services University of California, Los Angeles Ninez A. Ponce, Associate Professor of Public Heath University of California, Los Angeles Donna L. Washington, M.D.…

  • Congenital dermoid cyst of the anterior fontanel in mestizo-mulatto children Child’s Nervous System Volume 17, Number 6 (2001) pages 353-355 DOI: 10.1007/s003810000419 Sonia Fermín Section of Neurosurgery Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic R. Fernández-Guerra Section of Neurosurgery Hospital Infancy Dr. R. Reid C, Santo Domingo,  Dominican Republic O. López-Camacho Section…

  • Genetic Linkage of the Dentinogenesis Imperfecta Type III Locus to Chromosome 4q Journal of Dental Research Volume 78, Number 6 (June 1999) pages 1277-1282 DOI: 10.1177/00220345990780061301 M. MacDougall Department of Pediatric Dentistry University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio L. G. Jeffords Department of Pediatric Dentistry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio…

  • American Triracial Isolates: Their Status and Pertinence to Genetic Research Eugenics Quarterly Volume 4, Issue 4 (December 1957) pages 187-196 (Curteousy of The Melungeon Heritage Assoication) Calvin L. Beale (1923-2008) United States Department of Agriculture In the 1950 Census of Population, 50,000 American Indians are listed as living in states east of the Mississippi River.…

  • This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s.

  • In full agreement with this suggestion of glandular disturbance is the general opinion of biologists that the human hybrid shows a typical instability in mental and moral respects—a want of balance.  His motives and actions are incalculable, his impulses stronger that his self-control. I feel more and more convinced that the inmates of our prisons…

  • Race mixture Eugenics Review Volume 25, Number 3 (October 1933) pages 161–166. K. B. Aikman Abridged from a paper read before the Eugenics Society on June 20th, 1933. The immense advances in the last hundred years in the medical sciences and their application have greatly reduced death-rates, not only in civilized countries, but in savage…

  • (Paper read at the ninth meeting, 1930, at he the International Federation of Eugenic Organizations.)

  • Characterizing the Admixed African Ancestry of African Americans Genome Biology Volume 10, Issue 12 (2009) R141 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2009-10-12-r141 Fouad Zakharia Department of Genetics Stanford University School of Medicine Analabha Basu Institute for Human Genetics University of California, San Francisco Devin Absher HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology, Huntsville, Alabama Themistocles L. Assimes Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Stanford…