Pastebin

Importance of IQ

https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/76922/1/MPRA_paper_76922.pdf
https://archive.li/n5Sxv
https://archive.li/MGxWa

Genes matter a lot, generally

http://news.ubc.ca/2015/05/06/how-your-brain-reacts-to-emotional-information-is-influenced-by-your-genes/

Other metrics which matter

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272711001381

Epigenetics

https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2018/05/29/the-flimsy-evidence-for-epigenetic-changes-in-dna-to-be-transmitted-between-generations-of-humans/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

Methylation specifically

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759714/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3334571/

Racial Bias/Contact Research

http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/06/f729e36e-e050-45e0-b6cf-27eb8a71bcfc.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20180607092748/http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/06/f729e36e-e050-45e0-b6cf-27eb8a71bcfc.pdf

http://www.cdnresearch.net/pubs/2015_McDonald_Navarrete_PsychScience.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20180607093011/http://www.cdnresearch.net/pubs/2015_McDonald_Navarrete_PsychScience.pdf

Miscegenation

https://archive.li/g85sz
https://archive.fo/P9Ghc
http://archive.is/P9Ghc
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14192
http://www.nber.org/papers/w14192
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/07/568948782/black-mothers-keep-dying-after-giving-birth-shalon-irvings-story-explains-why
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2013/11/30/247530095/are-you-interested-dating-odds-favor-white-men-asian-women
https://archive.fo/ISpHM
https://web.archive.org/web/20160320234245/http://www.jkp.com/uk/mixed-experiences.html

Other mental traits

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047272711001381
http://news.ubc.ca/2015/05/06/how-your-brain-reacts-to-emotional-information-is-influenced-by-your-genes/

Expert Opinion

http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf

Criticisms of HBD/Hereditarianism

https://www.madinamerica.com/2013/03/the-trouble-with-twin-studies/
https://www.ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk/education-skills-and-training/a-levels/students-aged-16-to-18-achieving-3-a-grades-or-better-at-a-level/latest

Criticisms of critics

https://www.bitchute.com/video/t5TbcrRbpUAu/
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7257
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/?p=7257
https://preservingeurope.wordpress.com/2018/01/04/shaun-vs-the-great-replacement-anti-white-rhetoric-refuted-part-1/

Morphological differences

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(15)00671-5.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2862912/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3361742/
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0013642
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C31&as_vis=1&q=african+humans+brain+structure&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&p=&u=%23p%3Doa7SPw_9iysJ
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ICXVn7QK4QE3x1g7vcKoSJihYycOFQAl/view

Medical differences

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/07/568948782/black-mothers-keep-dying-after-giving-birth-shalon-irvings-story-explains-why


Past European Thought on Race

https://books.google.com/books?id=0kQgSKlUFa8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=race+and+redemption+new+england&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj4q52r7tXbAhWjwFkKHQ6RA2oQ6AEIJzAA#v=onepage&q=race%20and%20redemption%20new%20england&f=false

Sex Realism

https://cepa.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/wp18-13-v201806_0.pdf


Lead, apparently

https://www.vox.com/a/lead-exposure-risk-map
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/most-dangerous-cities-florida_n_4524866

Academia, the absolute state of

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3c4TxciNeJZOTl3clpiX0JKckk/view

Immigracion

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Y5iblDQOJBUURmWHhsRXowV3M/view
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Y5iblDQOJBUURmWHhsRXowV3M/view
https://www.census.gov/prod/cen2010/briefs/c2010br-01.pdf

Huwite Flight

https://pastebin.com/iekxMVFP
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/07/white-flight-alive-and-well/399980/

Ethnic nepotism and politicking

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/08/mexican-presidential-hopeful-campaigns-in-california-slams-trump-and-backs-illegal-immigrants.html

Autosegregation

http://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1004572
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042702

European Genetics

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:European_genetic_structure_(based_on_SNPs)_PC_analysis.png

Social Media Debates

https://archive.li/heskD
https://archive.li/RA7Vh
https://archive.li/FO7Ji
https://archive.li/5sr8E
https://elifesciences.org/articles/09343
https://archive.li/7xL92
https://archive.li/6u69l
https://archive.li/u5Mx0
https://archive.li/v8ryH
https://archive.li/IW6Ln
https://archive.li/7YY11

https://archive.li/9C6bq

https://archive.li/BlKCa
http://www.pnas.org/content/114/5/e727

https://archive.li/dNKec


https://archive.li/LRE8o
https://archive.li/nGMGt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etMmhzQL3ho&feature=youtu.be

Other pastebins and resources

https://redpilled.club

https://www.reddit.com/r/HBD/
https://pastebin.com/u/maxred

https://www.bitchute.com/video/t5TbcrRbpUAu/

Sean last's old and current blog:
http://archive.is/spawktalk.blogspot.com
https://ideasanddata.wordpress.com/
Althype old and new site:
http://neweuropeanp.tumblr.com/
http://thealternativehypothesis.org/
Preprint server for biology papers:
https://www.biorxiv.org/
Most cited papers in "Intelligence"
https://www.journals.elsevier.com/intelligence/most-cited-articles
HBD:
http://archive.is/6xRv8
Kirkegaard blog: (+all his papers)
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/
David piffer's work:
https://openpsych.net/person/5
Metapedia:
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Library of hate:
https://libraryofhate.com/
True Dil tom doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n6b_-2gRE_ewAST716x8VwQtn4LuxFPE3kpmeFTMetw/edit?usp=drivesdk
My doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/14vxK0EYTdnqk_wKCQWYkA9TARzMhqe1uhgxegk5DvFg/edit?usp=drivesdk
Audacious epigone:
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/?m=1
 Francis the Guido:
https://preservingeurope.wordpress.com/

Arguments for our position

Matty: I talk about the 80% general Heritability of IQ after 12 years old mostly.
But they're not exactly wrong. IQ has a crystallized element that you have to control for. That's why distilling g and finding its Heritability is better. Fourth stage did that a couple days ago. Rushton did it as a career for a decade lol
We've also got GWAS hits, mutational load, evidence for selection in the brain transcriptome, frontal lobe volume, Spearman analyses, personality research, Dan Friedman's stuff on neonate behavior. Every little morsel of research ever done on the subject calls back to a rich history- no, histories, plural- of natural selection operating on the brain in different environments across the globe.

Me: basically going through each category and showing it's doubtful and how environmental explanations have to get more and more nebulous to cope with this (SES doesnt cause the gap so it must be systems of oppression!)

Replies to critics

Debunking Denialism:
thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/05/04/debunking-a-denier-part-1-the-existence-of-race-race-iq/
thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2016/05/05/debunking-a-denier-part-2-race-and-crime/
thealternativehypothesis.org/index.php/2017/02/24/first-worldism-part-3-the-heritability-of-political-views/

Expert Opinion

http://www.intelligence.martinsewell.com/Gottfredson1997.pdf
http://emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/uploads/2013-survey-of-expert-opinion-on-intelligence.pdf

General chat essays:

SUBJECT MATTER: WHITE PREGNANT FEMALES FEAR OF BLACK MEN- REPLICATED STUDIES
1.) McDonald-"Fertility and Intergroup Bias in Racial and Minimal-Group Contexts: Evidence for Shared Architecture
McDonald: "Recent research has shown that White women’s bias against Black men increases with elevated fertility across the menstrual cycle. We demonstrate that the association between fertility and intergroup bias is not limited to groups defined by race, but extends to group categories that are minimally defined, and may depend on the extent to which women associate out-group men with physical formidability. In Study 1, Black and White women with strong associations between the racial out-group and physical formidability displayed greater bias against out-group men as conception risk increased. Study 2 replicated these results in a minimal-group paradigm. These findings are consistent with the notion that women may be endowed with a psychological system that generates intergroup bias via mechanisms that rely on categorization heuristics and perceptions of the physical formidability of out-group men, particularly when the costs of sexual coercion are high.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/25835467?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

SUBJECT MATTER: WHITE PREGNANT FEMALES FEAR OF BLACK MEN- REPLICATED STUDIES
2.) McDonald:"Examining the Link Between Conception Risk and Intergroup Bias: The Importance of Conceptual Coherence-Replication"
McDonald:"Evolutionary approaches to intergroup bias have predominantly
focused on male perpetrators of bias (e.g., Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Van Vugt, De Cremer, & Janssen,
2007; Wrangham & Peterson, 1996). However, recent research has examined how the motivations for intergroup
bias may differ between men and women, providing evidence for a female-specific psychology of prejudice
against out-group men that is linked to changes in conception risk across the menstrual cycle (McDonald, Asher,
Kerr, & Navarrete, 2011; Navarrete, Fessler, Fleischman, & Geyer, 2009). Hawkins, Fitzgerald, and Nosek (2015)
reported a putative failure to confirm this link in a series of replication attempts. Here, we offer three important
critiques of their replication attempts that should help clarify these apparent inconsistencies. The most important
critique involves the theoretical coherence of the conceptual replications—specifically, the use of female
target stimuli in research purportedly aimed at investigating the workings of a psychological system for the avoidance of sexual coercion. Our Commentary is intended to improve understanding of the theoretical arguments
underlying key predictions in order to facilitate the continued coherence of research in this important area."
Retype: "Evolutionary approaches to intergroup bias have predominantly
focused on male perpetrators of bias (e.g.,
Sidanius & Pratto, 1999; Van Vugt, De Cremer, & Janssen,
2007; Wrangham & Peterson, 1996). However, recent
research has examined how the motivations for intergroup
bias may differ between men and women, providing
evidence for a female-specific psychology of prejudice
against out-group men that is linked to changes in conception
risk across the menstrual cycle (McDonald, Asher,
Kerr, & Navarrete, 2011; Navarrete, Fessler, Fleischman, &
Geyer, 2009). Hawkins, Fitzgerald, and Nosek (2015)
reported a putative failure to confirm this link in a series
of replication attempts. Here, we offer three important
critiques of their replication attempts that should help
clarify these apparent inconsistencies. The most important
critique involves the theoretical coherence of the
conceptual replications—specifically, the use of female
target stimuli in research purportedly aimed at investigating
the workings of a psychological system for the avoidance
of sexual coercion. Our Commentary is intended to
improve understanding of the theoretical arguments
underlying key predictions in order to facilitate the continued
coherence of research in this important area.

SUBJECT MATTER: EPIGENETICS AND RACE
1.) Genome-Wide Variation of Cytosine Modifications Between European and African Populations and the Implications for Complex Traits
Moen:"Elucidating cytosine modification differences between human populations can enhance our understanding of ethnic specificity in complex traits. In this study, cytosine modification levels in 133 HapMap lymphoblastoid cell lines derived from individuals of European or African ancestry were profiled using the Illumina HumanMethylation450 BeadChip. Approximately 13% of the analyzed CpG sites showed differential modification between the two populations at a false discovery rate of 1%. The CpG sites with greater modification levels in European descent were enriched in the proximal regulatory regions, while those greater in African descent were biased toward gene bodies. More than half of the detected population-specific cytosine modifications could be explained primarily by local genetic variation. In addition, a substantial proportion of local modification quantitative trait loci exhibited population-specific effects, suggesting that genetic epistasis and/or genotype · environment interactions could be common. Distinctcorrelations were observed between gene expression levels and cytosine modifications in proximal regions and gene bodies, suggesting epigenetic regulation of interindividual expression variation. Furthermore, quantitative trait loci associated with population-specific modifications can be colocalized with expression quantitative trait loci and single nucleotide polymorphisms previously identified for complex traits with known racial disparities. Our findings revealed abundant population-specific cytosine modifications and the underlying genetic basis, as well as the relatively independent contribution of genetic and epigenetic variations to population differences in gene expression."
PLEASE READ THE LAST LINE OF THAT ABSTRACT
2.) DNA methylation contributes to natural human variation-THIS STUDY PROVES THAT THE MAJORITY OF METHYLATION VARIATION IS FROM GENETIC VARIATION
Heyn:" DNA methylation differences can be partially traced back to genetic variation,
suggesting that differentially methylated CpG sites serve as evolutionarily established mediators between the
genetic code and phenotypic variability. Notably, one-third of the DNA methylation differences were not associated with any genetic variation, suggesting that variation in population-specific sites takes place at the genetic and epigenetic levels, highlighting the contribution of epigenetic modification to natural human variation.


1.) McDonald-"Fertility and Intergroup Bias in Racial and Minimal-Group Contexts: Evidence for Shared Architecture

http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/06/f729e36e-e050-45e0-b6cf-27eb8a71bcfc.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20180607092748/http://news.msu.edu/media/documents/2011/06/f729e36e-e050-45e0-b6cf-27eb8a71bcfc.pdf

2.) McDonald:"Examining the Link Between Conception Risk and Intergroup Bias: The Importance of Conceptual Coherence-Replication"

http://www.cdnresearch.net/pubs/2015_McDonald_Navarrete_PsychScience.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20180607093011/http://www.cdnresearch.net/pubs/2015_McDonald_Navarrete_PsychScience.pdf

NEW TOPIC
SUBJECT MATTER: EPIGENETICS AND RACE

1.) Genome-Wide Variation of Cytosine Modifications Between European and African Populations and the Implications for Complex Traits
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3730924/
http://archive.is/PAXOt

2.) DNA methylation contributes to natural human variation-THIS STUDY PROVES THAT THE MAJORITY OF METHYLATION VARIATION IS FROM GENETIC VARIATION

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3759714/
http://archive.is/FJOoK

SUBJECT MATTER: TWINS-VALIDITY OF GENETIC PREDISPOSITIONS

1)Jacob Felson: What can we learn from twin studies? A comprehensive evaluation of the equal environments assumption
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6c61/c3c0909c4aee8a72ad2e1c9d629cc200558e.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20180606083159/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/6c61/c3c0909c4aee8a72ad2e1c9d629cc200558e.pdf

2)Dalton Conley :"Heritability and the Equal Environments Assumption: Evidence
from Multiple Samples of Misclassified Twins"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10519-013-9602-1
https://archive.fo/iAXph

3.) William G. Iacono: "The utility of twins in developmental cognitive neuroscience research: How
twins strengthen the ABCD research design"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929317301135
https://archive.fo/fafiQ

4.) Hallgrmsson: "Spatial Coherence of Oriented White Matter Microstructure:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05342
https://archive.fo/eRweu

5.) Waldman:  "Twins’ Rearing Environment Similarity and Childhood
Externalizing Disorders: A Test of the Equal Environments Assumption"
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10519-014-9685-3
https://archive.fo/fiI6t

6.) Mara ten Kate: "White matter hyperintensities and vascular risk factors in
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0197458018300447
https://archive.fo/wh2lV

7.) Cocaro: "Reduced frontal grey matter, life history of aggression, and underlying
genetic influence"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29174436
https://archive.fo/DAFqM

8.)Jacob Felson-What Can we Learn From Twin Studies?
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3ed6/ea579e47a3e7446254c63de8816a368993a7.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20180606084440/https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3ed6/ea579e47a3e7446254c63de8816a368993a7.pdf

SUBJECT MATTER: EPIGENETICS AND  RACE

1.) Gertz: "Analysis of DNA Methylation in a Three-Generation Family Reveals Widespread Genetic Influence on Epigenetic Regulation"
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002228
https://web.archive.org/save/http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1002228

2.) Fraser:"Population-specificity of human DNA methylation"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22322129
https://archive.fo/YAnsh


1.) Manuck:" Racial and ethnic differences in preterm birth: A complex,multifactorial problem"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0146000517300988
https://archive.fo/I4V5v

SUBJECT MATTER: TWINS-VALIDITY OF GENETIC PREDISPOSITIONS
Jacob Felson: What can we learn from twin studies? A comprehensive evaluation of the equal environments assumption
Felson: "Results support a middle ground position; it is likely that the EEA is
not strictly valid for most outcomes, but the resulting bias is likely modest."
2.) Dalton Conley :"Heritability and the Equal Environments Assumption: Evidence
from Multiple Samples of Misclassified Twins"
Dalton: "Overall, the evidence suggests that typical twin heritability
estimates of behavioral outcomes are not upwardly biased
by failing to address the covariance between genes and
environment. In other words, our evidence supports the
EEA and lends credence to methods used here and in
previous studies that compare similarity based on actual
and perceived zygosity to assess the EEA. Further, our
results build on previous research to suggest that phenotypic
similarity and perceived zygosity are not co-determined."
3.) William G. Iacono: "The utility of twins in developmental cognitive neuroscience research: How
twins strengthen the ABCD research design"
Iacono: "The study of twins has provided compelling evidence of the ubiquitous
influence of genetics, as well as environments, on important
human traits ranging from anthropometric characteristics, to physiological
and biochemical traits, to diseases, and psychological and behavioral
traits and disorders"
4.) Hallgrmsson: "Spatial Coherence of Oriented White Matter Microstructure:
Applications to White Matter Regions Associated with Genetic Similarity"
Hallgrmsson :" This method is demonstrated on a population of monozygotic
(MZ) and dizygotic (DZ) twins, with a control
group composed of the same individuals with their pairings
scrambled such as to keep the same demographic proles
but otherwise form unrelated strangers. The method discovers
3.7% of all white matter voxels to be associated with
genetic similarity (35.1k voxels, p < 10􀀀4, false discovery
rate 1.5%), 75% of which form twenty-two contiguous
white matter regions. These white matter regions generalize
to a population of non-twin siblings and are shown
to be a good indicator of genetic similarity there as well,
as compared to a population of strangers. The regions
encapsulate nearly all of deep white matter."

5.) Waldman:  "Twins’ Rearing Environment Similarity and Childhood
Externalizing Disorders: A Test of the Equal Environments Assumption"
Waldman: "We found that MZ twins experienced substantially more
similar rearing environments than DZ twins, but that there
was little evidence that MZ and DZ correlations for the
externalizing symptom dimensions varied by rearing
environment similarity. Thus, these results constitute evidence
for the validity of the EEA for childhood externalizing
disorders."
6.) Mara ten Kate: "White matter hyperintensities and vascular risk factors in
monozygotic twins"
Kate: "The withinetwin pair correlation for total WMHs was 0.76 and for Framingham score was 0.77. Within
participants, Framingham score was associated with total and periventricular WMHs (r ¼ 0.32). Framingham
score in 1 twin was also associated with total WMHs in the co-twin (r ¼ 0.26). Up to 83% of the
relation between both traits could be explained by shared genetic effects. In conclusion, monozygotic
twins have highly similar vascular risk and WMH burden, confirming a genetic background for these
traits. The association between both traits is largely driven by overlapping genetic factors"
7.) Cocaro: "Reduced frontal grey matter, life history of aggression, and underlying
genetic influence"
Cocaro: "Genetic factors accounted for the majority of the
phenotypic correlations between aggression and mPFC GMV (85.3%) and between aggression and lPFC GMV
(63.7%). Reduced GMV of prefrontal brain regions may be a neuronal characteristic of individuals with substantial
histories of aggressive behavior regardless of psychiatric diagnosis. As such, these data suggest an
anatomical correlate, with a possible genetic etiology, associated with functional deficits in social-emotional
information processing"
8.)Jacob Felson-What Can we Learn From Twin Studies? (2009 Book)  (This one is a hard one to find, I got the copy from a pirateer)
Felson:"The findings are not easily categorized as supporting or undermining the EEA.
Some violations of EEA were found for some outcomes, but the bias caused by these
violations is likely to be modest in most cases. Researchers should not conduct twin
studies without including controls for environmental similarity. However, the findings
also indicate that many of the results of twin studies are robust with these controls.
The flaws of twin studies are not fatal, but rather seem no worse (and maybe better)
than the flaws of the typical causal study that relies on observational data."
SUBJECT MATTER: EPIGENETICS AND  RACE
NEW TOPIC
SUBJECT MATTER: EPIGENETICS AND  RACE
1.) Gertz: "Analysis of DNA Methylation in a Three-Generation
Family Reveals Widespread Genetic Influence on Epigenetic Regulation"
Gertz:"We found that 75% of genotype-dependent differential methylation events in
the family are also seen in unrelated individuals and that overall genotype can explain 80% of the variation in DNA
methylation. These events are under-represented in CpG islands, enriched in intergenic regions, and located in regions of low evolutionary conservation. Even though they are generally not in functionally constrained regions, 22% (twice as manyas expected by chance) of genes harboring genotype-dependent DNA methylation exhibited allele-specific gene expression as measured by RNA-seq of a lymphoblastoid cell line, indicating that some of these events are associated with gene expression differences. Overall, our results demonstrate that the influence of genotype on patterns of DNA methylation is widespread in the genome and greatly exceeds the influence of imprinting on genome-wide methylation patterns."
2.) Fraser:"Population-specificity of human DNA methylation"
Fraser:" Here we measure DNA methylation near the transcription start sites of over 14, 000 genes in 180 cell lines
derived from one African and one European population. We find population-specific patterns of DNA methylation
at over a third of all genes. Furthermore, although the methylation at over a thousand CpG sites is heritable, these
heritabilities also differ between populations, suggesting extensive divergence in the genetic control of DNA
methylation. In support of this, genetic mapping of DNA methylation reveals that most of the population
specificity can be explained by divergence in allele frequencies between populations, and that there is little overlap
in genetic associations between populations. These population-specific genetic associations are supported by the
patterns of DNA methylation in several hundred brain samples, suggesting that they hold in vivo and across
tissues."
NEW TOPIC
SUBJECT MATTER: RACE MIXING AND HEALTH
1.) Manuck:" Racial and ethnic differences in preterm birth: A complex,multifactorial problem"
"Preterm birthremainstheleadingcauseofmorbidityandmortalityamongnonanomalous
neonates, andisamajorpublichealthproblem.Non-Hispanicblackwomenhavea2-fold
greater riskforpretermbirthcomparedwithnon-Hispanicwhiterace.Thereasonsforthis
disparity arepoorlyunderstoodandcannotbeexplainedsolelybysociodemographic
factors. Underlyingfactorsincludingacomplexinteractionbetweenmaternal,paternal,
and fetalgenetics,epigenetics,themicrobiome,andthesesociodemographicriskfactors
likely underliesthedifferencesbetweenracialgroups,buttheserelationshipsarecurrently
poorly understood.Thisarticlereviewstheepidemiologyofdisparitiesinpretermbirth
rates andadversepregnancyoutcomesanddiscusspossibleexplanationsfortheracialand
ethnic differences,whileexaminingpotentialsolutionstothismajorpublichealth
problem."
RETYPE: "Preterm birth remains the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among nonanomalous neonates, and is a major public health problem. Non-Hispanic black women have a 2-fold greater risk for preterm birth compared with non-Hispanic white race. The reasons for this disparity are poorly understood and cannot be explained solely by sociodemographic factors. Underlying factors including a complex interaction between maternal, paternal, and fetal genetics, epigenetics, the microbiome, and these sociodemographic risk factors likely underlies the differences between racial groups, but these relationships are currently poorly understood. This article reviews the epidemiology of disparities in preterm birth rates and adverse pregnancy outcomes and discuss possible explanations for the racial and ethnic differences, while examining potential solutions to this major public health problem."

Future Topics: predictive power of hereditarianism versus egalitarianism