background: ankylosing spondylitis (as) may manifest with heterogeneous patterns according to ethnic origins. the objectives of this study were to describe the influence of various iranian ethnic origins on clinical measures in patients with as. methods: 0ne hundred sixty-three as patients diagnosed by modified new york 1984 criteria were enrolled consecutively in a cross-sectional study. the p...

Although a considerable proportion of serum lipids loci identified in European ancestry individuals (EA) replicate in African Americans (AA), interethnic differences in the distribution of serum lipids suggest that some genetic determinants differ by ethnicity. We conducted a comprehensive evaluation of five lipid candidate genes to identify variants with ethnicity-specific effects. We sequence...

We use a mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) dataset provided by the FBI to build classifiers that can guess the ethnicity of the bearer of an mtDNA sample, using a number of different algorithms. Mitochondrial DNA is the genetic material that is found in mitochondria, organelles that reside inside the cells. The DNA found in mitochondria is relatively small in size but is highly informative and is there...

OBJECTIVES Aboriginal Canadians (i.e., First Nations, Inuit and Métis) are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS, and experience greater social and economic marginalization and poorer housing conditions. This study sought to understand the differences in the determinants of health and housing-related characteristics between samples of Aboriginal and Caucasian adults living with HIV/AIDS in On...

INTRODUCTION In United States, roughly 1/5 of all HIV infected persons remain undiagnosed. Because HIV testing is critical to improve prevention efforts, more research is needed to understand the characteristics of individuals who get tested for HIV. METHODS This secondary analysis of the 2010 Texas Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System used data from 9,744 respondents between 18-64 year...

To understand how parents of adolescents attempt to regulate their children's eating behaviors, the prevalence of specific food-related parenting practices (restriction, pressure-to-eat) by sociodemographic characteristics (parent gender, race/ethnicity, education level, employment status, and household income) were examined within a population-based sample of parents (n=3709) of adolescents. L...

Addressing language and cultural nuance is required to improve the quality of care among all patients. The tenth version of the National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health Care (CLAS) recommends implementing ongoing assessments to integrate specific actions into measurement and continuous quality improvement activities. To this end, we have created the In...