Sentences with phrase «certain ethnic populations»

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My quarrel with the guardians of the establishment is not that these things are bad, but rather that the establishment leaders use artificial barriers, such as race and religion and ethnic origin, to exclude certain segments of the population from ever having the opportunity to enjoy these fruits of the good life.

«These findings dispute the commonly held notion that the gap in donor supply in certain geographic areas is due to large populations of racial and ethnic minorities who are less likely to consent for donation, thus affecting the geography of available organs,» said the study's lead author, David Goldberg, MD, MSCE, an assistant professor in the division of Gastroenterology at Penn..

Investigators led by Jeffrey Drope, Ph.D., writing in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, say these populations include individuals in lower education and / or socioeconomic groups; from certain racial / ethnic groups; in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community; with mental illness; and in the military, particularly among those in the lowest pay grades.

This type of testing is currently offered to individuals who have a family history of a genetic disease, people in certain ethnic groups with an increased risk of specific genetic diseases (population screening), and people concerned about their risk of having a child with a genetic disease.

Some variants (and associated genetic diseases) are more common in certain ethnic groups, due to a single genetic variant or set of common genetic variants within that population.

Computational pipeline to determine signs of natural positive selection for certain biological pathways among different human ethnic populations.

Sharon Palmer singles out obesity and diabetes because she said there are epidemics of these health conditions in certain countries with a significant ethnic population.

Graduation rates are even lower among certain student populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities and males.

Although scholars and educators affirm that musical, intellectual, or physical gifts are distributed amongst the American population, they «discover» these gifts disproportionately in students with certain racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic privileges.

Indeed, there's nothing wrong with marketing yourself as having certain language skills — so long as you pitch your services to the population at large, not just to those ethnic groups who speak that language.