{"id":722,"date":"2013-09-04T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T15:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/ingles\/?p=722"},"modified":"2014-07-30T14:23:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T17:23:53","slug":"molecular-mestizo-and-bioinformatic-mestizo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/molecular-mestizo-and-bioinformatic-mestizo\/","title":{"rendered":"Molecular mestizo and bioinformatic mestizo"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Castasmestizas\"

Las castas. 18th century.
Virreinato National Museum, Tepotzotl\u00e1n, Mexico.\u00a0Source: Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n

From the time that Mexico was home only to indigenous ethnicities \u2013 prior to the arrival of the Spanish colonizers and their African slaves \u2013 down to the present, the genomic make-up of the Mexican population has undergone significant diversification. In the twentieth century, Mexicans began to be identified as mestizos, and this has been essential to the shaping of a national identity.<\/p>\n

But just how alike are these mestizos?<\/b><\/p>\n

In order to better understand the history and anthropology of miscegenation in Central America and to investigate factors related to health \u2013 such as the propensity to diabetes or the efficacy of a given medicine \u2013 Mexico\u2019s National Institute of Genomic Medicine (Inmegen) established a databank that contains genetic samples gathered from mestizos in different places around the country, revealing the proportion of their indigenous, European, and African ancestry.<\/p>\n

According to the researchers Carlos L\u00f3pez-Beltr\u00e1n, with the Institute for Philosophic Research, Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico, and Vivette Garc\u00eda Deister, with Brazil\u2019s National Polytechnic Institute\u2019s Center for Research and Advanced Studies, this approach resulted in the construction of two techno-scientific objects, which they have labeled the \u201cmolecular mestizo\u201d and the \u201cbioinformatic mestizo.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the article Scientific approaches to the Mexican mestizo<\/i><\/a>, the authors investigate the interactions between the ideological, cultural, and scientific \u201cincarnations\u201d of the mestizo.<\/p>\n

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