Category: Health/Medicine/Genetics

  • Science: Environmentalist Time Magazine 1936-05-11 In Washington last week one of the world’s most distinguished anthropologists told the National Academy of Sciences about an Englishman who was raised in Italy and married a Jewess. In consequence this Englishman’s gestures gradually became half Italian, half Jewish. Anthropology is neither an old science like mathematics, astronomy and…

  • The Population Variance of the Proportion of Genetic Admixture in Human Intergroup Hybrids Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences December 1971 Volume 68, Number 12 pages 3168–3169 PMCID: PMC389614 T. Edward Reed, Professor of Zoology and Anthropology; Associate Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada For each individual in a human hybrid population…

  • Caucasian Genes in American Negroes Science (1969-08-22) Volume 165 pages 762-768 DOI: 10.1126/science.165.3895.762 T. Edward Reed, Professor of Zoology and Anthropology; Associate Professor of Paediatrics University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Measurement of non-African ancestry is difficult, but it is worthwhile for several genetic reasons. It is very difficult to describe the genetic history of a…

  • Intellectual Development of Children from Interracial Matings Science (1970-12-18) Volume 170, Number 3964 pages 1329-1331 DOI: 10.1126/science.170.3964.1329 Lee Willerman Perinatal Research Branch National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health Alfred F. Naylor Perinatal Research Branch National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, National Institutes of Health Ntinos C. Myrianthopoulos Perinatal Research…

  • White mother given mixed race sperm in IVF loses compensation claim British Medical Journal Volume 341, Number 5806 2010-10-15 DOI: 10.1136/bmj.c5806 Clare Dyer Two children in Northern Ireland whose white mother was mistakenly impregnated with sperm from South Africa labelled “Caucasian (Cape Coloured)” during in vitro fertilisation have failed in a compensation claim at the…

  • Mapping genes that predict treatment outcome in admixed populations The Pharmacogenomics Journal Published Online: 2010-10-05 DOI: 10.1038/tpj.2010.71 Tesfaye Mersha Baye, Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati College of Medicine Russell Alan Wilke, Associate Professor of Medicine Vanderbilt University Medical Center There is great interest in characterizing the genetic architecture underlying drug response. For many drugs, gene-based…

  • Race, Identity, and Medical Genomics in the Obama Age (Lecture by Duana Fullwiley) Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus Tuesday, 2010-10-05, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z) Duana Fullwiley, Assistant Professor of African and African American studies and of Medical Anthropology Harvard University A series of public programs…

  • Fall 2010 Honors Colloquium: RACE University of Rhode Island Tuesday evenings, 19:00 ET (Local Time); (23:00Z through November; 00:00Z on Wednesday after November 9). 2010-09-14 through 2010-12-07 Edwards Auditorium, URI Kingston Campus A series of public programs at the University of Rhode Island presented by the URI Honors Program Join us! The public is invited…

  • What Can DNA Really Tell Us About Race? UCtelevision Unviersity of California 2007-04-25 00:54:55 Introduction by Howard Winnant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Troy Duster, Chancellor’s Professor of Sociology University of California, Berkeley and Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge New York University One…

  • We found definitions of racial/ethnic variables were often lacking or unclear, the specific categories they used were inconsistent and context specific, and classification practices were often implicit and unexamined. We conclude that such conceptual and practical problems are inherent to routinely used racial/ethnic categories themselves, and that they lack sufficient rigor to be used as…