Visceral fat is a more important factor in obesity-associated disorders Japanese individuals than Caucasian individuals.

BACKGROUND All cultural groups in the world place paramount value on interpersonal trust. Existing research suggests that although accurate judgments of another's trustworthiness require extensive interactions with the person, we often make trustworthiness judgments based on facial cues on the first encounter. However, little is known about what facial cues are used for such judgments and what ...

OBJECTIVE Despite investigations into the rapid increase in eating disorders across diverse ethnic groups, conclusions concerning ethnicity and eating disorders are contradictory. The objective of the present study was to investigate eating attitudes in ethnic Japanese and Caucasian adolescents in Brazil. The influence of body mass index (BMI), menarche and social-affective relationships on the...

Sporadic heart failure is thought to have a genetic component, but the contributing genetic events are poorly defined. Here, we used ultra-high-throughput resequencing of pooled DNAs to identify SNPs in 4 biologically relevant cardiac signaling genes, and then examined the association between allelic variants and incidence of sporadic heart failure in 2 large Caucasian populations. Resequencing...

PURPOSE Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gene mutations have been described in nearly every adult solid neoplasm including prostate cancer. There are marked racial differences in specific inherited mutations within the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene in individuals with prostate cancer (PCa). The purpose of this study was to identify the variation in COI gene sequence in prostate cancer pati...

Abstract Introduction In men, estrogen is produced in the testis by Sertoli cell, Leydig cell and germ cells that play an important role maturation capacitation of sperms. The action mediated two specific Receptors: Estrogen receptors α (ESRα) receptor β (ESRβ). polymorphisms ERβ gene confer a lower sex hormone binding globulin (SHBG) thus stronger unbound effect, which may adversely affect hum...

The current study investigated factors related to specific phobia domains and differences in patterns among African American and Caucasian American adults. Subjects were 100 African Americans and 121 Caucasian Americans who completed the Fear Survey Schedule--Second Edition (FSS-II). Fears related to specific phobia domains were first examined, with frequencies differing between African America...

Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are an important part of the innate immune response to a variety of pathogens including hepatic viral infections. Activation of TLRs stimulates a complex intracellular signalling cascade that results in production of proinflammatory cytokines and interferons important for antiviral responses as well as induction of the adaptive arm of the immune system. There is subst...

Turkic languages are an integral part of the linguistic landscape of present-day Caucasia, both north and south of the mountain ridge. Different from the so-called “autochthonous” Caucasian languages, i.e. the languages pertaining to the Kartvelian (South-Caucasian), (North-)West Caucasian and (North-East) Caucasian families, both the southern (Oghuz) and the northern (Qypchaq) idioms of Turkic...

Background. Previous reports describe ethnicity based differences in clinical and laboratory features between Caucasians and African Americans with myasthenia gravis. However, it is not known whether these findings apply to other ethnicities. Methods. Retrospective analysis of all patients treated for myasthenia gravis during a three-year period at a community based medical center. Results. A t...