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| Vasconcelos,Janaina Mota de; Móia,Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira; Amaral,Ivanete do Socorro Abraçado; Miranda,Esther Castello Branco Mello; CicaliseTakeshita,Louise Yukari; Oliveira,Layanna Freitas de; Mendes,Lilian de Araújo Melo; Sastre,Danuta; Tamegão-Lopes,Bruna Pedroso; Pedroza,Larysse Santa Rosa de Aquino; Santos,Sidney Emanuel Batista dos; Soares,Manoel do Carmo Pereira; Araújo,Marialva Tereza Ferreira de; Bandeira,Camila Lucas; Silva,Adriana Maria Paixão de Sousa da; Medeiros,Zilene Lameira de; Sena,Leonardo; Demachki,Samia; Santos,Eduardo José Melo dos. |
| Soroprevalence for Hepatitis C virus is reported as 2.12% in Northern Brazil, with about 50% of the patients exhibiting a sustained virological response (SVR). Aiming to associate polymorphisms in Killer Cell Immunoglobulin-like Receptors (KIR) with chronic hepatitis C and therapy responses we investigated 125 chronic patients and 345 controls. Additionally, 48 ancestry markers were genotyped to control for population stratification. The frequency of the KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL2+HLA-C Asp80 gene and ligand was higher in chronic infected patients than in controls (p < 0.0009, OR = 3.4; p = 0.001, OR = 3.45). In fact, KIR2DL3 is a weaker inhibitor of NK activity than KIR2DL2, which could explain the association of KIR2DL2 with chronic infection. Moreover,... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: HCV; KIR; HLA-C; Hepatitis C; KIR2DL2. |
| Ano: 2013 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572013000100004 |
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| Guerreiro,João Farias; Ribeiro-dos-Santos,Ândrea Kely Campos; Santos,Eduardo José Melo dos; Vallinoto,Antonio Carlos Rosário; Cayres-Vallinoto,Izaura Maria Vieira; Aguiar,Gilberto Ferreira de Souza; Santos,Sidney Emanuel Batista dos. |
| The Amazon region of Brazil includes communities founded by escaped slaves, some of which still remain relatively isolated. We studied two such Afro-Brazilian communities (Pacoval and Curiau), in the rural area of Alenquer, Pará, and in the metropolitan region of Macapá, Amapá, respectively. Among 12 blood loci, alleles considered as markers of African ancestry, such as HBB*S, HBB*C, TF*D1, HP*2M, ABO*B, RH*D-, and CA2*2 were found at frequencies that are expected for populations with a predominantly African origin. Estimates of interethnic admixture indicated that the degree of the African component in Curiau (74%) is higher than that of Pacoval (44%); an Amerindian contribution was not detected in Curiau. Estimated values of African ancestry fit well... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
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| Ano: 1999 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000200004 |
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| Ferreira,Francileide Lisboa; Leal-Mesquita,Emygdia Rosa; Santos,Sidney Emanuel Batista dos; Ribeiro-dos-Santos,Ândrea Kely Campos. |
| Five loci (vWA1, F13A1, D12S67, Apo-B and D1S80) were investigated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis followed by silver staining in a sample of 177 individuals from the population of São Luís, State of Maranhão, Brazil. A total of 70 different alleles were identified. A statistically significant deviation from the Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium was observed in a single locus (F13A1, p = 0.0075). The average heterozygosity (H) was estimated at 77.7%, the mean number of alleles per locus as 14. The PD (capacity of genotype differentiation at each locus) ranged from 88.9% (vWA1) to 96.7% (F13A1). The combined PE (power of exclusion) of these five loci was 99.8%. In terms of racial admixture (42% European, 39% Indian, and 19% African Black ancestry), São Luís... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Amazon region; DNA; Polymorphisms; VNTRs; STRs; Interethnic admixture. |
| Ano: 2005 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572005000100004 |
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| Francez,Pablo Abdon da Costa; Ramos,Luiz Patrick Vidal; Palha,Teresinha de Jesus Brabo Ferreira; Santos,Sidney Emanuel Batista dos. |
| The allelic and haplotype frequencies of 17 Y-STR loci most commonly used in forensic testing were estimated in a sample of 138 unrelated healthy males from Macapá, in the northern Amazon region of Brazil. The average gene diversity was 0.6554 ± 0.3315. 134 haplotypes of the 17 loci were observed, 130 of them unique and four present in two individuals each. The haplotype diversity index was 0.9996 + 0.0009, with the most frequent haplogroups being R1b (52.2%), E1b1b (11.6%), J2 (10.1%) and Q (7.2%). Most haplogroups of this population belonged to European male lineages (89.2%), followed by Amerindian (7.2%) and African (3.6%) lineages. |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Amazon population; Forensic genetics; Haplogroups; Y-haplotypes; Y-STR. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572012000100006 |
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| Francez,Pablo Abdon da Costa; Rodrigues,Elzemar Martins Ribeiro; Frazão,Gleycianne Furtado; Borges,Nathalia Danielly dos Reis; Santos,Sidney Emanuel Batista dos. |
| The allelic frequencies of 12 short tandem repeat loci were obtained from a sample of 307 unrelated individuals living in Macapá, a city in the northern Amazon region, Brazil. These loci are the most commonly used in forensics and paternity testing. Based on the allele frequency obtained for the population of Macapá, we estimated an interethnic admixture for the three parental groups (European, Native American and African) of, respectively, 46%, 35% and 19%. Comparing these allele frequencies with those of other Brazilian populations and of the Iberian Peninsula population, no significant distances were observed. The interpopulation genetic distances (F ST coefficients) to the present database ranged from F ST = 0.0016 between Macapá and Belém to F ST =... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Allelic frequencies; Brazilian Amazon population; Interethnic admixture. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572011000100007 |
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| Carvalho,Bruno Maia; Bortolini,Maria Cátira; Santos,Sidney Emanuel Batista dos; Ribeiro-dos-Santos,Ândrea Kely Campos. |
| The formation of the Brazilian Amazonian population has historically involved three main ethnic groups, Amerindian, African and European. This has resulted in genetic investigations having been carried out using classical polymorphisms and molecular markers. To better understand the genetic variability and the micro-evolutionary processes acting in human groups in the Brazilian Amazon region we used mitochondrial DNA to investigate 159 maternally unrelated individuals from five Amazonian African-descendant communities. The mitochondrial lineage distribution indicated a contribution of 50.2% from Africans (L0, L1, L2, and L3), 46.6% from Amerindians (haplogroups A, B, C and D) and a small European contribution of 1.3%. These results indicated high genetic... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: African mtDNA; Amazon population; Amerindian mtDNA; HVS-I. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572008000100002 |
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