BACKGROUND Studies throughout North America and Europe have documented adverse perinatal outcomes for racial/ethnic minorities. Nonetheless, the contrast in newborn characteristics between indigenous and non-indigenous populations in Latin America has been poorly characterized. This is due to many challenges, including a lack of vital registration information on ethnicity. The objective of this...

This research is the first empirical attempt to calculate the various components of the hidden bias associated with the sampling strategies routinely-used in human genetics, with special reference to surname-based strategies. We reconstructed surname distributions of 26 Italian communities with different demographic features across the last six centuries (years 1447-2001). The degree of overlap...

OBJECTIVES To introduce a unique system of alias assignment for patients whose identity is initially unknown at time of admission to the emergency unit; to prevent confusion and cases of mistaken identity. METHODS At the triage area the "unknown" patient is given a "forename" using the phonetic alphabet according to the stage of the current name cycle. The sex of the patient is included as we...

There is an error in the third author’s name. The correct surname for the third author is: Abi Nahed. The correct given name is: Roland. The correct citation is: Yassine S, Escoffier J, Abi Nahed R, Pierre V, Karaouzene T, Ray PF, et al. (2015) Dynamics of Sun5 Localization during Spermatogenesis in Wild Type and Dpy19l2 Knock-Out Mice Indicates That Sun5 Is Not Involved in Acrosome Attachment ...

For many decades now even initial medical training in the Soviet Union has been conducted along specialist lines. Given that there is no single curriculum that all intending doctors must follow, there can be no place for the concept of a general medical practitioner whom patients will consult with any presenting symptom, irrespective of their sex and age. The "first line" of the Soviet health s...

The genetic structures of past human populations are obscured by recent migrations and expansions and have been observed only indirectly by inference from modern samples. However, the unique link between a heritable cultural marker, the patrilineal surname, and a genetic marker, the Y chromosome, provides a means to target sets of modern individuals that might resemble populations at the time o...

In this paper, we give results on our recent study on Chinese person names. The analysis is based on a corpus of 1 million names. The results include the syllable lengths and surname composition of the names in the corpus, full name and given name statistic results and analysis, tonal pattern analysis of Chinese full and given names, and name confusion analysis when given number of names are ex...

One is related to my own name and happened in 2002, when a psychiatrist from Slovenia, late Prof. Andrej Marušič, submitted a paper (2) to the Croatian Medical Journal, which I edited at that time. Our introduction was along the lines “So you are the other “Marusic A” that gets in the list of my papers on PubMed!” Indeed, I have always had troubles sorting out my articles from Andrej’s (and ano...

A recent study published in the Revista Española de Cardiología1 showed important variation and lack of standardization in the names of Spanish cardiologists. This may have negative consequences for the diffusion of research results and the recognition of scientific authorship.2 Several reasons account for this variation in the way an author signs; these include all those agents involved in the...

Correction After publication of this work [1], we noted that the name and surname of one of the authors have been swapped. Now the order of names and surnames of all authors has been corrected as follows: " Ethel Mary Brinda, Antonio Rodríguez Andrés and Ulrika Enemark " (Name, surname). References 1. Brinda EM, Andrés RA, Enemark U: Correlates of out-of-pocket and catastrophic health expenditu...