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Inbreeding and cancer incidence in human isolates.
Human biology - 1 Apr 1999
Rudan I
Abstract excerpt
This study investigates the incidence of cancer in isolate populations. Thorough anthropological research over the past 3 decades has established island populations in Middle Dalmatia, Croatia, as outstanding examples of genetic isolates. The number of cancer cases on 5 islands (Brac, Hvar, Korcula, Vis, and Lastovo) over a 20-year period (1971-1990) has been extracted from the data of the Croatian Cancer...
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