Publications by authors named "S Deming"
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- A shortage of healthcare providers, especially in primary care and mental health, is a notable issue in rural Idaho, emphasizing the need for research on retention factors in these areas.
- A study utilized a modified Nursing Community Apgar Questionnaire with 30 healthcare providers to evaluate various categories affecting retention, such as geographic, economic, and community support factors.
- Results showed that medical support factors were deemed critically important, while facility and community support were viewed as the most advantageous, highlighting the significance of resources like reference materials in enhancing provider retention.
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- Scientists looked at how certain genes may affect breast cancer in women with African ancestry.
- They studied 9,241 women with breast cancer and compared them to 10,193 healthy women to find links between the genes and the disease.
- They found specific gene variations that could increase the risk of breast cancer, especially types of cancer that don't depend on estrogen.
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- Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) can identify increased breast cancer risk in women of African ancestry, but they are less effective than in European, Asian, and Latino populations.
- A study with over 9,200 cases and 10,000 controls evaluated PRSs and found that the odds of developing breast cancer increased with higher PRS scores.
- Despite the potential of a recalibrated PRS to better represent risk in African women, it did not significantly enhance breast cancer risk prediction, indicating a need for further research tailored to this demographic.
Although many loci have been associated with height in European ancestry populations, very few have been identified in African ancestry individuals. Furthermore, many of the known loci have yet to be generalized to and fine-mapped within a large-scale African ancestry sample. We performed sex-combined and sex-stratified meta-analyses in up to 52,764 individuals with height and genome-wide genotyping data from the African Ancestry Anthropometry Genetics Consortium (AAAGC).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) has made tremendous improvements to their annual meeting in an effort to promote inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility to all scientists. However, within academia as an institution overall, many scientists face personal challenges that directly compete with the rigorous culture considered a requirement for success as an academic. Among these challenges is balancing parenthood with academic responsibilities, such as conference attendance and productivity.
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