African Diaspora and its Religious Heritage: A view from Triple-Border (Brazil/Paraguay/Argentina)

Breastfeeding: A View from the Border.

The United States–Mexico border is the largest international boundary, running from Tijuana–San Diego to Brownsville–Matamoros; it extends 1,989 miles (3,201 km) along the Rio Grande or Rio Bravo depending on which side of the border you are standing on. It is the most frequently crossed international boundary in the world, with *230,000 legal crossings being made each day, 350 million in a yea...

The African diaspora: history, adaptation and health.

The trans-Atlantic slave trade brought millions of Africans to the New World. Advances in genomics are providing novel insights into the history and health of Africans and the diasporan populations. Recent examples reviewed here include the unraveling of substantial hunter-gatherer and 'Eurasian' admixtures across sub-Saharan Africa, expanding our understanding of ancestral African genetics; th...

AFRICAN DIASPORA AND AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT Background paper for AfroNeth

Cystic Fibrosis in the African Diaspora.

Identifying mutations that cause cystic fibrosis (CF) is important for making an early, unambiguous diagnosis, which, in turn, is linked to better health and a greater life expectancy. In patients of African descent, a molecular diagnosis is often confounded by the fact that the majority of investigations undertaken to identify causative mutations have been conducted on European populations, an...

Identifying tagging SNPs for African specific genetic variation from the African Diaspora Genome

A primary goal of The Consortium on Asthma among African-ancestry Populations in the Americas (CAAPA) is to develop an 'African Diaspora Power Chip' (ADPC), a genotyping array consisting of tagging SNPs, useful in comprehensively identifying African specific genetic variation. This array is designed based on the novel variation identified in 642 CAAPA samples of African ancestry with high cover...