Updated September 9, 2022 |Infoplease Staff America's historic Black population In 1790, when the first census was taken, African Americans numbered about 760,000—about 19% of the population. In 1860, at the start of the Civil War, the African-American population increased to 4.4 million, ...
RESULTS. There were 322 cases of invasive cancer in this population. Patients were predominantly African American (81%) and male (61%). The majority of cases involved patients who were compliant with an ART regimen when they presented initially for diagnosis (79%) with a subset of patients ...
Video: "I've seen a lot of tragedies. The pandemic just took the blinders off us to see how poorly we were doing," says an African American, as the U.S. COVID-19 death toll exceeds one million. (Xinhua) --- "Racial inequality was baked into the recipe of the creation of the Un...
Rosewood, Florida, is a small, peaceful town with an almost entirely African-American population of middle-class homeowners, until New Year's Day 1923, when a lynch mob from a neighboring white community storms the town. Among the carnage, music teacher Sylvester (Don Cheadle) and mysterious...
The poor transferability of genetic risk scores (GRSs) derived from European ancestry data in diverse populations is a cause of concern. We set out to evaluate whether GRSs derived from data of African American individuals and multiancestry data perform
We generated whole genome sequencing data at intermediate (15×) coverage for 2,294 individuals with large amounts of Sub-Saharan African ancestry, predominantly Atlantic African admixed with varying amounts of European and American ancestry. We performed extensive comparisons of variant callers, ...
Africa has the youngest population in the world. Among the 35 countries with the lowest median age worldwide, only three fall outside the continent. In 2023, the median age in Niger was 15.1 years, the youngest country. This means that at this age point, half of the population was younge...
In 2022, the labor participation rate among the total population aged between 15 and 64 in Central African Republic remained nearly unchanged at around 70.48 percent.
American components; however, we speculate that this may reflect risk for asthma inherited from a Native American genetic background given the minimal European component in the HONDAS population. We note this trend is not as strong in PGCA, the CAAPA study with the highest proportion of Native ...
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