However, reduced heterozygosity (−4 SDs) was identified in 34 samples, possibly as result of the multiethnic background of the samples.
Also, the strengths of the study include 1) the use of state-of-the-art measures of insulin secretion, 2) the study of a young population in which the effects of aging on insulin secretion and sensitivity are not evident yet, and 3) the multiethnic background of the cohort.
In a recent meta-analysis of 102 prospective studies involving ∼700,000 participants of multiethnic background (26), only <4% (∼23,000) of the participants were Asians (all from Japan).
"Because of my multiethnic background, they say I should leave the country.
Because of his multiethnic background, they say, Mr. Woods should be helping to break gender and racial barriers in his sport, which was long a preserve of affluent white males.
Barack Obama's self-identity as an African American has been questioned because of his multiethnic background, while Tiger Wood was criticized by some within the African-American community for refusing to identify as black.
Patients in the T1DM15 30 group were mainly of Anglo-Celtic background (77.8%), and by contrast, the T2DM15 30 group was of a more multiethnic background (28.1% Anglo-Celtic) (Table 1).
With her multiracial, multiethnic background, Jones has a unique ability to engage with a staggering array of people (young and old, male and female, conservative and liberal, white and non-white) and to bring them to the stage in performances that are mixes of interview and invention, what she calls, "doing a vertical plunge into another person's experience".
But today, Woods, whose multiethnic background has always been notable in a sport lacking diversity, offered a more elaborate opinion on golf's most vexing issue -- the exclusion of women as members at Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters.
Championship hosts France, who like Germany have won the World Cup with a squad full of players of multiethnic backgrounds, have also been dogged by a debate about ethnicity ahead of the tournament.
So using those of multiracial or multiethnic backgrounds as absolute evidence for social progress can be dangerous, Chang believes.
