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James V. Neel
Researcher at University of Michigan
Publications - 327
Citations - 18140
James V. Neel is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Mutation rate. The author has an hindex of 61, co-authored 327 publications receiving 17852 citations. Previous affiliations of James V. Neel include Hiroshima University & Michigan State University.
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Diabetes mellitus: a "thrifty" genotype rendered detrimental by "progress"?
TL;DR: Current developments in the study of diabetes mellitus suggest an explanation with important biological ramifications, and changes in the environment are responsible for the increase.
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Hypocatalasemia: a new genetic carrier state
Shigeo Takahara,Howard B. Hamilton,James V. Neel,Thomas Y. Kobara,Yoshio Ogura,Edwin T. Nishimura +5 more
TL;DR: Heterozygotes for this disease have now been identified using a biochemical assay for red blood cell catalase activity; the mean activity of a normal control group is 5.38 units while that of the heterozygotes is 2.17, and no overlap in values between the two groups has been found.
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Blood pressure, sodium intake, and sodium related hormones in the Yanomamo Indians, a "no-salt" culture.
TL;DR: The Yanomamo Indians are an unacculturated tribe inhabiting the tropical equatorial rain forest of northern Brazil and southern Venezuela who do not use salt in their diet, which presented an unusual opportunity to study the hormonal regulation of sodium metabolism in a culture with life-long extreme restriction of dietary sodium.
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The "thrifty genotype" in 1998.
TL;DR: The probable relative effectiveness in the future of a genetically based in contrast to an environmentally based program of prevention and therapy for these diseases is discussed.