For lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer + people, family peer support are often important in their identity development during early adulthood. Young adults who have moved out of the to pursue university education seek a sense community feeling kinship with other LGBTQ+ individuals as they journey through transition. Based on semi-structured interviews eight self-identified female stu...

Abstract Guided by social justice and sexual health concerns, scholars of same‐sex sexualities in Africa have mainly examined related conflicts inequities, generating an unbalanced emphasis on homophobia. Following Stella Nyanzi's plea for a broader exploration queer sexuality Africa, we move beyond the strictly sphere to study kinship arrangements couples Kenya. These rely different possibilit...

Contemporary social and medical changes – such as the rising divorce rates and rates of subsequent remarriage, the introduction of new fertility techniques and rising longevity – trigger public debates about kinship, nature and culture. At the same time, ‘ the master narrative ’ telling how kinship declined in the course of modernization has been largely rejected by historians. Now, however, ‘ ...

BACKGROUND Estimating relationships among subjects in a sample, within family structures or caused by population substructure, is complicated in admixed populations. Inaccurate allele frequencies can bias both kinship estimates and tests for association between subjects and a phenotype. We analyzed the simulated and real family data from Genetic Analysis Workshop 19, and were aware of the simul...