Adaptations to water stress and pastoralism in the Turkana of northwest Kenya

Autor: Lea, AJ, Caldas, IV, Garske, KM, Echwa, J, Gurven, M, Handley, C, Kahumbu, J, Kamau, Kinyua, P, Lotukoi, F, Lopurudoi, A, Lowasa, S, Mallarino, R, Martins, D, Messer, PW, Miano, C, Muhoya, B, Peng, J, Phung, T, Rabinowitz, JD, Roichman, A, Siford, R, Stone, A, Oill, AM Taravella, Mathew, S, Wilson, MA, Ayroles, JF

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The Turkana people inhabit arid regions of east Africa—where temperatures are high and water is scarce—and they practice subsistence pastoralism, such that their diet is primarily composed of animal products. Working with Turkana communities, we

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The built environment is more predictive of cardiometabolic health than other aspects of lifestyle in two rapidly transitioning Indigenous populations.

Autor: Watowich MM; Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA., Arner AM; Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA., Wang S; Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA., John E; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya., Kahumbu JC; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya., Kinyua P; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya.; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya., Lopurudoi A; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya., Lotukoi F; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya., Mwai CM; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya.; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya.; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA., Muhoya B; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya.; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA., Mukoma B; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya., Tam KL; Department of Parasitology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Huat TBTATB; Department of Parasitology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Gurven M; Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA., Lim YAL; Department of Parasitology, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Martins D; Turkana Health and Genomics Project, Kenya.; Turkana Basin Institute, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY., Njeru S; Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya., Seong NK; Department of Medicine, Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia., Venkataraman VV; Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada., Wallace IJ; Department of Anthropology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA., Ayroles JF; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.; Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA., Kraft TS; Department of Anthropology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA., Lea AJ; Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Publikováno v: MedRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences [medRxiv] 2024 Aug 26. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Aug 26.