a total of 1611 serum samples collected from ten ethnically distinct populations of iran (turks and kurds of rezaieh, lurs, zabolis, baluchis, turks and kurds of shirvan, zoroastrians, tehranis and kermanis) were examined for haptoglobin, transrferrin and the third component of complement systems. the gene frequencies obtained of these samples were combined with those of the previous studies of...

background: cytokines are cell signaling molecules which upon release by cells facilitate the recruitment of immune-modulatory cells towards the sites of inflammation. genetic variations in cytokine genes are shown to regulate their production and affect the risk of infectious as well as autoimmune diseases. intron-3 of interleukin-4 gene (il-4) harbors 70-bp variable number of tandem repeats (...

there is little known about the systematics and population structure of indian gerbils (tatera indica) in iran. in the present study six populations of t.indica from different localities of iran were compared according to morphology, morphometry and karyological studies to determine the status of these populations at the sub specific level. the univariate, bivariate and multivariate statistical...

Cancer incidence for American Indians and Alaska Natives is typically reported as a single rate for all U.S. indigenous populations combined. Previously reported combined rates suggest that American Indians and Alaska Natives have lower cancer incidence rates compared with the U.S. population. Alaska Native people comprise three major ethnic groups: Eskimo, Indian, and Aleut people. We examined...

Ongoing modernization in India has elevated the prevalence of many complex genetic diseases associated with a western lifestyle and diet to near-epidemic proportions. However, although India comprises more than one sixth of the world's human population, it has largely been omitted from genomic surveys that provide the backdrop for association studies of genetic disease. Here, by genotyping Indi...

Genomic variation in Indian populations is of great interest due to the diversity of ancestral components, social stratification, endogamy and complex admixture patterns. With an expanding population of 1.2 billion, India is also a treasure trove to catalogue innocuous as well as clinically relevant rare mutations. Recent studies have revealed four dominant ancestries in populations from mainla...

The origins and genetic affinities of the more than 500 tribal populations living in South Asia are widely disputed. This may reflect differential contributions that continental populations have made to tribal groups in South Asia. We assayed for the presence of the intergenic COII/tRNALys 9-bp deletion in human mtDNA in 646 individuals from 12 caste and 14 tribal populations of South India and...

Sanjay Kumar and Arvind Kumar Singh (2017) Genetic subdivision in natural populations of animals including Drosophila can be well understood by studying the role of evolutionary forces like natural selection, migration and genetic drift which are mainly responsible for the change in their genome. Drosophila ananassae is a cosmopolitan and domestic species and is one of the prevalently occurring...

OBJECTIVES With an increase and diversity in ethnic populations in Westernized countries, understanding the differences in levels of knowledge surrounding hypertension is important in planning appropriate prevention strategies. The purpose of our study was to assess levels of hypertension knowledge in Chinese, Indian and White populations in a large metropolitan Canadian city. DESIGN A teleph...