(a.) Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern and central Pacific), or to the Polynesians.
Example Sentences:
(1) These data provide further support for the theories of genetic homogeneity and of Asian affinities of the Polynesian precursor populations.
(2) The frequencies of shovelling in the Southern Cook (23%) were quite similar at the medium level (S + S.S), to those in other Polynesian groups as well as in the Micronesian groups.
(3) A control group of individuals from Southeast Asia shared the same major haplotypes, 4, 1, and 7, with Polynesians.
(4) It is suggested that the Polynesian AHI molecular conformation must differ from the Caucasian pattern, providing an arrangement of antigen sites more favourable to some antigen-antibody reactions.
(5) All the patients were European despite the fact that 15 per cent of the local population is either Maori or Polynesian.
(6) The phenotype was found in Polynesians of all blood groups and the frequency was significantly increased in group 0 persons.
(7) A choledochal cyst is reported for the first time in a Polynesian.
(8) These data support the theories claiming that an independent group of pre-Polynesian ancestors who colonized into the Pacific were ultimately derived from east Asia.
(9) The presence of the rare Lewis phenotype Le(a+b+) is reported in various Polynesian groups, including Maoris, Samoans, Cook Islanders, Nuieans and Tokelau Islanders.
(10) Furthermore, Melanesians and Polynesians share certain antigens such as DRw6 and DRw8, but the DR beta 2 genes associated with DRw6 and the DQ genes associated with DRw8 are population-specific and show little or no overlap.
(11) DRB1*0405 and DRB1*0410 were common DR4 alleles in Australian aborigines and in Melanesians, while DRB1*0403 was the predominant DR4 allele in coastal Melanesians, Micronesians, and Polynesians; DRB1*0406 was confined to Chinese.
(12) The relative distributions of 480 DR2-related DR,DQ haplotypes have been determined in Australian Aborigines, Papua New Guinean Highlanders, coastal Melanesians, Micronesians, Polynesians, Javanese, and Southern and Northern Chinese.
(13) Ninety-three percent of Polynesians exhibited this 9-bp deletion, including 100% of Samoans, Maoris, and Niueans.
(14) The prevalence and 14 year incidence of clinical gout and its precursors were investigated in the Polynesian population of Tokelauans living in the Pacific basin, non-migrant Tokelauans living in their isolated atoll homeland being compared with migrant Tokelauans living in urban New Zealand.
(15) Mean values of FVC and FEV1 were found to be lower than those reported for Caucasians and Polynesians, but similar to Melanesians, Negroes and Chinese.
(16) The positive threshold of the reaction was fixed according to this background activity in healthy Polynesians.
(17) The female expatriate Polynesian patient had PG localized to the upper back while the other four patients had severe and extensive PG lesions.
(18) The RFLP data from the two separate loci on the X chromosome in Polynesians show similarities with Chinese and Japanese populations, reinforcing theories of an early Polynesian ancestry originating in east Asia.
(19) The bone mineral content of the nondominant distal radius and ulna was measured by single photon absorptiometry in 123 European and 80 Polynesian women.
(20) The incidence of malignancy in the Polynesian populations served, the histology of the malignancies, and the outcome of therapy were reviewed and compared with 185 non-Polynesian (non-P) patients seen during the same period.