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SUBMITTER: Vasunilashorn S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3529658 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Vasunilashorn Sarinnapha S Finch Caleb E CE Crimmins Eileen M EM Vikman Suvi A SA Stieglitz Jonathan J Gurven Michael M Kaplan Hillard H Allayee Hooman H
Biodemography and social biology 20110101 1
The Tsimane of lowland Bolivia are an indigenous forager-farmer population living under conditions resembling pre-industrial European populations, with high infectious morbidity, high infection and inflammation, and shortened life expectancy. Analysis of 917 persons ages 5 to 60+ showed that allele frequencies of 9 SNPs examined in the apolipoprotein E (apoE), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6 (IL-6) genes differed from some European, African, and north Asian-derived populations. The a ...[more]