Aboriginal Canadians have received significant attention in nephrology due to the disproportionally high burden of ESKD requiring dialysis and transplantation. Evidence suggests that this disparity may be mostly driven by the lack of Aboriginals receiving the appropriate predialysis care [55]. Aboriginal Ca...
The Tiwi population has been isolated from mainland Australia for millennia and exhibits unique genetic characteristics that distinguish them from other Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations. Notably, the rate of end-stage renal disease is up to 20 times greater in this population compared to non...
X-STR haplotypes were generated for 298 self-declared male Aboriginals using the Investigator? Argus X-12 Kit. Haplotype frequencies and parameters of forensic interest are presented. The discrimination power of a full haplotype was 98.7% and the cumulative power of discrimination was 0.9999999988 for...
This picture is also typical for the aboriginals of northern Australia. Minisatellite DNA Markers in Population Studies 67 We studied the polymorphism of the D1S80 minisatellite in 32 populations from the Eastern European region (Verbenko et al., 2003b, 2004, 2006, 2007; Khrunin et al., ...
Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is a multivariate analysis that reduces the complexity of datasets while preserving data covariance. The outcome can be visualized on colorful scatterplots, ideally with only a minimal loss of information. PCA applicati
When Europeans moved into Australia, they wanted the Aboriginal people to become more like them. In 1959, they built a town called Papunya. They asked Aboriginal tribes to move there. In Papunya, the Europeans hoped the Aboriginal people would become part of European culture. However, Aboriginal...
Ex-prisoners were 1.7 times more likely to be hospitalised during a year than Western Australia's general adult population of roughly the same age.Conclusions: Using whole-population administrative linked health and justice data, our findings show that prisoners are vulnerable to hospitalisation in ...
Australia is the smallest continent and one of the largest countries on Earth, lying between the Pacific and Indian oceans in the Southern Hemisphere. Its capital city is Canberra, and its most important economic and cultural centers are Sydney and Melbo
of these newcomers settled in Sydney. Some of the inner suburbs have a distinctly Greek or Italian character, and almost every suburb has its variety of ethnic restaurants. There is a Chinatown, and one suburb, Redfern, has a smallcommunityof Aboriginals living under somewhat depressed conditions...
Figure 1. Flowchart of the development of the food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) for use among non-remote Aboriginal adults in Australia. ADGs, Australian Dietary Guidelines; NATSINPAS, National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey (conducted from 2012–2013)....