Genetics

Contrary to assumptions, the plasma leptin levels were higher in Danish children but plasma adiponectin was lowest in Inuit children as expected.

Investigates differences in perceptions, by health care providers and their Aboriginal clients, which led the author to believe that the differences were due, in part, to attempts by health professionals to assert authoritative control.

Results indicated that serum procathepsin B displayed increased potential as a emerging biomarker of ovarian cancer.

Details the nine traits chosen for study and analysis: body mass index (BMI), diastolic blood pressure, fasting glucose, high-density lipoprotein-cholesterol, natural log-transformed insulin, natural log-transformed triglycerides, percentage of body fat, systolic blood pressure, and waist-to-hip ratio.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Kansas, 2007.

Study reveals how DNA fingerprinting and social network analysis (SNA) are useful tools to uncover tuberculosis transmission patterns.

Genetics Thesis (M.Sc.)--The University of British Columbia, 2010.

Report supports the theory that both genetic and acquired factors play a role in the development of biliary atresia.

Study concluded that there was a high familial prevalence of rheumatoid arthritis in the North American Native (NAN) cohort.

Anthropology Thesis (M.A.)--The University of British Columbia (Vancouver), 2010.

Focuses on the Angmagssalik and Scoresbysund people of Greenland and how their fingerprint patterning differs from other Indigenous populations of the Arctic.

Speaker discusses the importance of agro-diversity, how genetic engineering is eradicating heritage varieties by concentrating seed ownership, and activism to protect traditional food crops. Duration:1:31:23.

Study findings revealed that HLA Alleles distribution in Nunavik, Quebec is not duplicated elsewhere in Canada or around the world.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Arizona State University, 1984.

Study found significant association between high birthweight and diabetes.

Study determined whether a pattern of functional single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) was present that could predispose a Dené cohort to a suboptimal response to Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Concludes that a Tyr1306Cys substitution in the LARG gene increases insulin sensitivity in nondiabetic Pima Indians.

Study found a higher frequency of the GNB3 825T allele in the Oji-Cree and supports the association of variation in this gene with a variation in blood pressure.

Study to determine why women develop diabetes at an earlier age than men.

Results suggest that genetic variation of the gene cluster may be a useful tool for the study of quantitative lipoprotein variation in the Dogrib.

Signed agreement between Pacific island nation of Samoa and the University of California, will split equally revenues from potential prostratin-based drugs, extracted from the mamala tree bark. Samoan healers were the first to recognize the trees medicinal potential.

Discusses the discovery of a gene mutation among residents of Sandy Lake Reserve, Ontario.

Study findings suggest that environment and lifestyle conditions could have influenced certain gene frequencies.

Examines the bioethical issues involving genetic ownership related to beliefs and practices of a culture and the effects on both health care and research.

Comments on the Genetics of Coronary Artery Disease in Alaska Natives (GOCADAN) Study.

Explores the theme of genetics in the novel. Scroll to appropriate page for article.

Results found that a significant genetic differentiation among the three Dogrib villages in the Northwest Territories.

Study provides additional insights into the relationship between the two ethnic groups.

Contrary to the linguistic evidence, the analysis of the genetic data shows that the Na-Dene are similar to other Native American populations.

Study findings indicated that a greater genetic degree of Cherokee ancestry reduces the risk of Alzheimer Disease (AD).

HLA analysis indicates a higher proportion of Asian ancestry in the Sami than what was shown by previous studies.

Study findings supplied new gene data that may point to the need to study further vulnerability to environmental contaminants.

Study findings indicate no evidence for an over-representation of the Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) alleles associated with cardiovascular fitness in the high-altitude population compared with the lowland population.

Anthropology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Davis, 2005.

Paper looks at the foreseeable harms associated with genetic research and traditional research ethics to provide adequate protection for human subjects and suggests that new principles and laws need to be developed.

Summarizes genetic research done on 25 standard protein and blood markers and genetic discontinuity in two language groups.

Epidemiology & Biostatistics Thesis (M.Sc.)--McGill University, 1994.

Zoology Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of British Columbia, 2000. Influence of genotype, comparing the frequencies of variants in a number of genes, between the Quechua in high altitudes in Peru and low altitude populations like the Na-Dene in British Columbia

Study results indicate that common genetic variation in LMNA my be an important determination of obesity-related quantitative traits.

Results suggest that genetic variation of chromosome 7q21.3-22.1 in PON2 is associated with variations in plasma lipoprotein metabolism.

Findings reflect the prevailing view that the PPARGA12 allele protects against damaging traits.

Molecular and Cellular Biology Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Arizona, 2002.

Argues that attributing weight gain and diabetes to the thrifty gene has failed to incorporate aboriginal health perspectives and should be "decolonized".

Study confirms an east Asian contribution to the mainly European-derived Saami gene pool.

Article investigation provides evidence of role of GRM7 in age-related hearing loss.

Results suggest links between type 2 diabetes and several chromosomal markers in the relatively small sample of Oji-Cree in Sandy Bay, Ontario.

Study results indicate that the Sami would benefit from the HapMap of the human genome to describe the common patterns of the human genetic variation.