Sentence examples for minority advantage from inspiring English sources

Tens of S-haplogroups with high sequence divergence are maintained within populations by frequency-dependent selection, because they confer a minority advantage (Castric et al., 2008; Llaurens et al., 2008).

Takahata and Nei [ 6] concluded that both heterozygote advantage and negative frequency dependence (which they referred to as minority advantage) can explain common features of MHC diversity such as trans-species polymorphism, high number of alleles and high heterozygosity.

Additional longitudinal studies are required to monitor trajectories in psychological well-being through adolescence into young adulthood, at which time in the life course any ethnic minority advantage may be eroded by prolonged exposure to racism in neighbourhoods and places of study and work.

Since each individual was entitled to equality before the law and equality of rights, no individual was entitled, on grounds of membership in an historically deprived group or racial or ethnic minority, to advantages that violate equality of rights and justify discrimination against other individuals on racial or ethnic ground.

Why, though, should minorities get an advantage and non-minorities the opposite?

It is the sort of scheme that ignores the rights of the minority & takes advantage of the privacy of the individual...& we believe transit radio to be an unfair & unhealthy sort of revenue.

Across northeastern Syria, the Kurds, the country's largest ethnic minority, have taken advantage of the vacuum left by the civil war to push for the autonomy long denied them by the government of President Bashar al-Assad.

Factory workers and villagers, both ethnic Burmese and members of minorities, have taken advantage of new freedom under Mr. Thein Sein's government to carry out limited demonstrations and strikes in recent months.

State law and cultural commitments can conflict in ways such that the costs for cultural minorities of taking advantage of the opportunity are prohibitively high.

In his excellent book "For Discrimination" (a defense of affirmative action), Harvard Law School professor Randall Kennedy approvingly cites academics who say that the theory underestimates the advantages minority applicants receive from attending highly competitive schools even if they earn lower grades than their classmates.

The gains were biggest among poor minority children, and that advantage continued for years to come.