 Caribbean Region
"Caribbean Region" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
The area that lies between continental North and South America and comprises the Caribbean Sea, the West Indies, and the adjacent mainland regions of southern Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela.
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D017691
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.084
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2011 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2014 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2015 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Caribbean Region" by people in Profiles.
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Nakasone SE, Young I, Estcourt CS, Calliste J, Flowers P, Ridgway J, Shahmanesh M. Risk perception, safer sex practices and PrEP enthusiasm: barriers and facilitators to oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Black African and Black Caribbean women in the UK. Sex Transm Infect. 2020 08; 96(5):349-354.
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Engelman M, Kestenbaum BM, Zuelsdorff ML, Mehta NK, Lauderdale DS. Work Disability Among Native-born and Foreign-born Americans: On Origins, Health, and Social Safety Nets. Demography. 2017 12; 54(6):2273-2300.
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Tria F, Servedio VD, Mufwene SS, Loreto V. Modeling the emergence of contact languages. PLoS One. 2015; 10(4):e0120771.
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Revell LJ, Mahler DL, Reynolds RG, Slater GJ. Placing cryptic, recently extinct, or hypothesized taxa into an ultrametric phylogeny using continuous character data: a case study with the lizard Anolis roosevelti. Evolution. 2015 Apr; 69(4):1027-35.
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Fabre PH, Vilstrup JT, Raghavan M, Sarkissian CD, Willerslev E, Douzery EJ, Orlando L. Rodents of the Caribbean: origin and diversification of hutias unravelled by next-generation museomics. Biol Lett. 2014 Jul; 10(7).
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Urbanek M, Hayes MG, Armstrong LL, Morrison J, Lowe LP, Badon SE, Scheftner D, Pluzhnikov A, Levine D, Laurie CC, McHugh C, Ackerman CM, Mirel DB, Doheny KF, Guo C, Scholtens DM, Dyer AR, Metzger BE, Reddy TE, Cox NJ, Lowe WL. The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. Hum Mol Genet. 2013 Sep 01; 22(17):3583-96.
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Zakrison TL, Armada F, Rai N, Muntaner C. The politics of avoidable blindness in Latin America--surgery, solidarity, and solutions: the case of Misión Milagro. Int J Health Serv. 2012; 42(3):425-37.
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Eklöf A, Helmus MR, Moore M, Allesina S. Relevance of evolutionary history for food web structure. Proc Biol Sci. 2012 Apr 22; 279(1733):1588-96.
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Hines HM, Counterman BA, Papa R, Albuquerque de Moura P, Cardoso MZ, Linares M, Mallet J, Reed RD, Jiggins CD, Kronforst MR, McMillan WO. Wing patterning gene redefines the mimetic history of Heliconius butterflies. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2011 Dec 06; 108(49):19666-71.
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Torgerson DG, Ampleford EJ, Chiu GY, Gauderman WJ, Gignoux CR, Graves PE, Himes BE, Levin AM, Mathias RA, Hancock DB, Baurley JW, Eng C, Stern DA, Celedón JC, Rafaels N, Capurso D, Conti DV, Roth LA, Soto-Quiros M, Togias A, Li X, Myers RA, Romieu I, Van Den Berg DJ, Hu D, Hansel NN, Hernandez RD, Israel E, Salam MT, Galanter J, Avila PC, Avila L, Rodriquez-Santana JR, Chapela R, Rodriguez-Cintron W, Diette GB, Adkinson NF, Abel RA, Ross KD, Shi M, Faruque MU, Dunston GM, Watson HR, Mantese VJ, Ezurum SC, Liang L, Ruczinski I, Ford JG, Huntsman S, Chung KF, Vora H, Li X, Calhoun WJ, Castro M, Sienra-Monge JJ, del Rio-Navarro B, Deichmann KA, Heinzmann A, Wenzel SE, Busse WW, Gern JE, Lemanske RF, Beaty TH, Bleecker ER, Raby BA, Meyers DA, London SJ. Meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies of asthma in ethnically diverse North American populations. Nat Genet. 2011 Jul 31; 43(9):887-92.
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