A5087690356- Digestive system and related health
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Genomics and Rare Diseases
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Indigenous Health and Education
- Genomic variations and chromosomal abnormalities
- Water Resources and Sustainability
- Plant Taxonomy and Phylogenetics
- Diet and metabolism studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Environmental and Cultural Studies in Latin America and Beyond
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
2022
Indiana University Bloomington
2017-2020
University of Chile
2014-2015
Over the past several decades, rural and indigenous populations in Latin America have experienced abrupt profound transformations their lifestyles economies, many having remarkable health consequences. Yet, these changes had heterogeneous effects on population's biology different local contexts.
Lactase persistence (LP) occurs at a very low frequency in indigenous populations from Latin America, offering an opportunity to understand the relationship between this genetic trait and patterns of dairy consumption. Here, LP is analyzed Mapuche -an adjacent- mestizo population inhabiting Araucanía region. In addition genotyping for LP, participants were surveyed relation general perception consumption habits products. Low (10%) intake was found among as compared with Mestizo Chile. The...
Lactase persistence (LP) is a genetic trait that has been studied among different countries and ethnic groups. In Latin America, the frequencies of this have shown to vary according degree admixture populations. The objective study better understand relationship between dairy intake in multiethnic context through synthesis studies conducted four regions Chile.Genotypes for SNP LCT-13910C>T (rs4988235) frequency consumption were obtained from populations: Polynesians Easter Island (Rapanui);...
Abstract Existing models of human growth provide little insight into underlying mechanisms responsible for inter-individual and inter-population variation in children’s trajectories. Building on general theories linking to metabolic rates, we develop a causal parametric model height weight incorporating representation body allometry process-partitioned ontogeny. This permits separation causes variation, potentially influenced by nutrition disease, from allometric factors, under stronger...