Ethnic studies

Nettleton and others (2008) characterized dietary patterns and their relation to incident type 2 diabetes in 5,011 participants from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) and found that high intake of whole grains, fruit, nuts/seeds, green leafy vegetables, and low-fat dairy was associated with a 15% lower diabetes risk. 

Nettleton JA, Steffen LM, Ni H, Liu K and Jacobs DR Jr. 2008. Dietary patterns and risk of incident type 2 diabetes in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). Diabetes Care 31 (9) 1777—1782. 

Bild DE, Bluemke DA, Burke GL, et al. Multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis objectives and design. Am J Epidemiol 2002 156 871-881. 

Identification of the actual genetic variants involved in disease is not a trivial task for complex diseases. Cross ethnic studies can aid in this venture, as patterns of LD may differ. Animal models also provide valuable information from study of knock-out and knock-in mice and from the mapping of QTLs in inbred strains. 

In 1925, Hausman conducted one of the earfiest comparative ethnic studies of pigment in head hair. He reported that races could not be distinguished based on... 

Chen YC, Chen YD, Li X, Post W, Herrington D, Polak JF, Rotter JI, Taylor KD (2009) The HMG-CoA reductase gene and lipid and lipoprotein levels the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Lipids 44 733-743... 

Nelson JC, Jiang XC, Tabas I, Tall A, Shea S. Plasma sphingomyelin and subclinical atherosclerosis findings from the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. Am J Epidemiol 163(2006) 903-912. 

Butler, Johnnella, ed. 2001. Color Line to Borderlands The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies. Seattle University of Washington Press. 

Jiang et al. [58] examined nut and seed consumption and inflammatory markers (C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and fibrinogen) in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis. This cross-sectional analysis included 6080 U.S. participants aged45-84 years. Nut and seed consumption was categorized as never/rare, less than once/week, one to four times per week, and five or more times/ week. Associations of nut and seed consumption with these biomarkers were not modified by BMI, waist to hip ratio, or race/ethnicity. Frequent nut and seed consumption was associated with lower levels of inflammatory markers, which may partially explain the inverse association of nut consumption with levels of C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, and fibrinogen. 

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The literary academic market is currently crowded with a range of approaches which seek to understand literary and cultural production outside the analytical frame of the nation state. There are a range of relatively new brands (postcolonialism, diaspora studies, transnationalism, world literature) which in turn draw on and reconfigure older traditions (world-systems theory, area studies, women s and ethnic studies, third world studies. 

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