scholarly journals Occurrence of the European Subgroup of Subtype I BK Polyomavirus in Japanese-Americans Suggests Transmission outside the Family

2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (23) ◽  
pp. 13254-13258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshiaki Yogo ◽  
Shan Zhong ◽  
Makoto Suzuki ◽  
Ayako Shibuya ◽  
Tadaichi Kitamura
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Geographic Area ◽  
Urine Samples ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Jc Polyomavirus ◽  
Primary Subgroup ◽  
Bk Polyomavirus ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mode Of Transmission

ABSTRACT To examine the mode of transmission of BK polyomavirus (BKV), urine samples were collected from Japanese-Americans in Los Angeles and from other southern Californians. Subtype I was the main subtype found in samples from both groups. The subtype I subgroup Ib-2, which is predominant in Europe, was the primary subgroup detected in second-generation Japanese-Americans and in southern Californians; however, the Ic subgroup prevalent in native Japanese was rare in these populations. Since the European subgroup (Ib-2) predominated in the studied geographic area, the findings demonstrate that transmission outside the family is common in the spread of BKV, unlike previous findings for JC polyomavirus.

scholarly journals Asian Genotypes of JC Virus in Japanese-Americans Suggest Familial Transmission

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (19) ◽  
pp. 10074-10078 ◽  
Author(s):  
Makoto Suzuki ◽  
Huai-Ying Zheng ◽  
Tomokazu Takasaka ◽  
Chie Sugimoto ◽  
Tadaichi Kitamura ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Jc Virus ◽  
Urine Samples ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Familial Transmission ◽  
The Family

ABSTRACT To examine the mode of JC virus (JCV) transmission, we collected urine samples from second- and third-generation Japanese-Americans in Los Angeles, Calif., whose parents and grandparents were all Japanese. From the urine samples of these Japanese-Americans, we mainly detected two subtypes (CY and MY) of JCV that are predominantly found among native Japanese. This finding provides support for the hypothesis that JCV is transmitted mainly within the family through long-term cohabitation.

FAMILIAL THYROXINE-BINDING GLOBULIN DEFICIENCY IN ASSOCIATION WITH NON-TOXIC GOITRE

1979 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Bratusch-Marrain ◽  
Hannes Haydl ◽  
Werner Waldhäusl ◽  
Robert Dudczak ◽  
Wolfgang Graninger
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Evidence ◽  
Autosomal Dominant ◽  
Serum Concentrations ◽  
Dominant Inheritance ◽  
Normal Range ◽  
Thyroxine Binding Globulin ◽  
The Family ◽  
High Incidence ◽  
Total Thyroxine ◽  
Mode Of Transmission

ABSTRACT A kindred is presented in which 4 members in 3 generations showed absent or reduced serum concentrations of thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG). TBG was undetectable by radioimmunoassay in one male and decreased to varying extent in 3 female patients (4.0, 4.2 and 8.6 μg/ml; normal range 12.5–26.0 μg/ml). Total thyroxine serum concentrations in the affected subjects were well in the hypothyroid range without clinical evidence of hypothyroidism. The mode of transmission of the trait was consistent with X-chromosome linkage. A high incidence of non-toxic goitre was also present in most of the family members examined irrespective of TBG levels. The transmission of the goitre trait was compatible with autosomal dominant inheritance. Thus its association with transmission of TBG deficiency was interpreted as not causal but coincidental.

Ballad for Incarcerated Americans: Second Generation Japanese American Musicking in World War II Camps

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 284-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARTA ROBERTSON
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The United States ◽  
United States Government ◽  
Japanese Americans ◽  
Japanese American ◽  
World War ◽  
American Popular Music

AbstractDuring World War II, the United States government imprisoned approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans, two-thirds of whom were American-born citizens, half of whom were children. Through ethnographic interviews I explore how fragile youthful memories, trauma, and the soundscape of the War Relocation Authority (WRA) Incarceration Camps shaped the artistic trajectories of three such former “enemy alien” youth: two pianists and a koto player. Counterintuitively, Japanese traditional arts flourished in the hostile environment of dislocation through the high number ofnisei(second generation) participants, who later contributed to increasing transculturalism in American music following resettlement out of camp. Synthesizing Japanese and Euro-American classical music, white American popular music, and African American jazz, manyniseiparadoxically asserted their dual cultural commitment to both traditional Japanese and home front patriotic American principles. A performance of Earl Robinson and John Latouche's patriotic cantata,Ballad for Americans(1939), by the high school choir at Manzanar Incarceration Camp demonstrates the hybridity of these Japanese American cultural practices. Marked by Popular Front ideals,Ballad for Americansallowedniseito construct identities through a complicated mixture of ethnic pride, chauvinistic white Americanism allied with Bing Crosby's recordings of theBallad, and affiliation with black racial struggle through Paul Robeson's iconicBalladperformances.

Family business successors' motivation and innovation capabilities: the case of Kosovo

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Asdren Toska ◽  
Veland Ramadani ◽  
Léo-Paul Dana ◽  
Gadaf Rexhepi ◽  
Jusuf Zeqiri
Keyword(s):  
Family Business ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Family Businesses ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Family ◽  
Emerging Country

PurposeThis study aims to investigate the second-generation successors’ motives to join family businesses and their ability to generate innovation within them.Design/methodology/approachA qualitative methodology is used in this study. Data were collected through structured interview with the second-generation representatives, where the data obtained helped us to come to the results and answer the research questions of the study. A total of 15 interviews were conducted.FindingsThe findings of this study show that the second generation is motivated to continue the family business, cases show that successors since childhood have been oriented towards building an entrepreneurial mindset and also after entering the family business have generated innovation.Originality/valueThe study will bring theoretical implications to the family business literature, providing scientific evidence for the second generation of family businesses, from an emerging country such as Kosovo. As Kosovo is an emerging country, the study will contribute to the literature, suggesting other studies by emerging countries in this way to see the similarities and differences.

“A Fly in the Buttermilk”

2019 ◽  
pp. 157-180
Author(s):  
Chinyere K. Osuji
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Family Members ◽  
White Family ◽  
White Families ◽  
Racial Boundaries ◽  
Domestic Migration ◽  
White Couples ◽  
The Family

This chapter compares the discursive strategies that black-white couples and their families drew on to navigate the integration of black spouses into white extended families. White Carioca families engaged in more openly racist opposition, racist humor, and/or indirect insults to express discomfort with blacks marrying into the family. In an “irony of opposition,” past race-mixing in Carioca white families did not shield black spouses from these sentiments. This countered the myth of racial democracy in which color is not an impediment to interpersonal relationships. Nevertheless, Carioca respondents were less likely to report resistance in white families than Angelino couples. U.S. couples' higher rates of domestic migration resulted in less integration of black spouses into white family life than among Brazilian couples, whose tight-knit family relationships led to black spouses' greater incorporation. Los Angeles couples understood white family members as using the discourse of “expressing concerns” about the relationship, then moving to more overt discouragement of marrying black partners. Couples understood this “expressing concern” discourse as an attempt at social desirability on the part of white family members, emblematic of U.S. “color-blind” racism.This chapter shows how intermarriage can leave white supremacy, anti-blackness, and racial boundaries intact within the family.

A Novel Electrochemical DNA Biosensor Based on Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles to Detect BK Polyomavirus in the Urine Samples of Transplant Patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (20) ◽  
pp. 12088-12095
Author(s):  
Seyyede Nafise Vakili ◽  
Majid Rezayi ◽  
Mohammad Chahkandi ◽  
Zahra Meshkat ◽  
Mona Fani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dna Biosensor ◽  
Urine Samples ◽  
Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles ◽  
Electrochemical Dna Biosensor ◽  
Transplant Patients ◽  
Bk Polyomavirus
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