This series of interviews was conducted by Rosabelle Seesaran, doctoral student in the Department of History, as part of her research on East Indians in Trinidad (Seesaran, Rosabelle, "Social Mobility in the Indo- Trinidadian ...

George James Christian was a Dominican lawyer who migrated to the Gold Coast via London in the early twentieth century. He is representative of a group of West Indians who made the return to the motherland in the late ...

Gastric cancer is one of the most lethal types of cancer and its incidence varies worldwide, with the Andean region of South America showing high incidence rates. We evaluated the genetic structure of the population from ...

Robert Taitt (66) was born in Barbados in 1924 but grew up in Guyana. He first came to the United States in 1943 (aged 19) as a recruit with the West Indian contingent in the British Royal Air Force and later returned in ...

Historical records and genetic analyses indicate that Latin Americans trace their ancestry mainly to the intermixing (admixture) of Native Americans, Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans. Using novel haplotype-based methods, ...

Background: The geographical distribution of genes plays a key role in genetic epidemiology. The Chilean population has three major stem groups (Native American, European and African). Aim: To estimate the regional rate ...

OBJECTIVES: To investigate the variation in dental nonmetric traits and to evaluate the utility of this variation for inferring genetic ancestry proportions in a sample of admixed Latin Americans. MATERIALS AND METHODS: ...

Viola Gopaul-Whittington, born in 1924 in Arouca, was a descendant of African and Indian antecedents. She claimed that the marriage of her great-grand-patents was the first of its kind between an Indian and an African in ...