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Employment Loss And Food Insecurity - Race And Sex Disparities In The Context Of Covid-19, Jacquelyn V Coats, Sarah Humble, Kimberly J Johnson, Havisha Pedamallu, Bettina F Drake, Elvin Geng, Charles W Goss, Kia L Davis
Employment Loss And Food Insecurity - Race And Sex Disparities In The Context Of Covid-19, Jacquelyn V Coats, Sarah Humble, Kimberly J Johnson, Havisha Pedamallu, Bettina F Drake, Elvin Geng, Charles W Goss, Kia L Davis
2020-Current year OA Pubs
INTRODUCTION: Applying an intersectional framework, we examined sex and racial inequality in COVID-19-related employment loss (ie, job furlough, layoff, and reduced pay) and food insecurity (ie, quality and quantity of food eaten, food worry, and receipt of free meals or groceries) among residents in Saint Louis County, Missouri.
METHODS: We used cross-sectional data from adults aged 18 or older (N = 2,146), surveyed by using landlines or cellular phones between August 12, 2020, and October 27, 2020. We calculated survey-weighted prevalence of employment loss and food insecurity for each group (Black female, Black male, White female, White male). Odds ratios …
Gene-Based Polygenic Risk Scores Analysis Of Alcohol Use Disorder In African Americans, Dongbing Lai, Arpana Agrawal, Et Al
Gene-Based Polygenic Risk Scores Analysis Of Alcohol Use Disorder In African Americans, Dongbing Lai, Arpana Agrawal, Et Al
2020-Current year OA Pubs
Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) in admixed populations such as African Americans (AA) have limited sample sizes, resulting in poor performance of polygenic risk scores (PRS). Based on the observations that many disease-causing genes are shared between AA and European ancestry (EA) populations, and some disease-causing variants are located within the boundaries of these genes, we proposed a novel gene-based PRS framework (PRS
Whole-Genome Sequencing Of African Americans Implicates Differential Genetic Architecture In Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Hari K Somineni, Rodney D Newberry, Et Al.
Whole-Genome Sequencing Of African Americans Implicates Differential Genetic Architecture In Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Hari K Somineni, Rodney D Newberry, Et Al.
2020-Current year OA Pubs
Whether or not populations diverge with respect to the genetic contribution to risk of specific complex diseases is relevant to understanding the evolution of susceptibility and origins of health disparities. Here, we describe a large-scale whole-genome sequencing study of inflammatory bowel disease encompassing 1,774 affected individuals and 1,644 healthy control Americans with African ancestry (African Americans). Although no new loci for inflammatory bowel disease are discovered at genome-wide significance levels, we identify numerous instances of differential effect sizes in combination with divergent allele frequencies. For example, the major effect at PTGER4 fine maps to a single credible interval of 22 …