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They say it runs in the family: diabetes and inheritance in Oaxaca, Mexico.
Social science & medicine (1982) - 1 Jun 2011
Everett Margaret
Abstract excerpt
The globalization of genetic discourses, especially where ethnicity is treated as a "risk factor" for disease, deserves special attention and concern. In countries such as Mexico, with large indigenous populations, the consequences of the Thrifty Genotype hypothesis and/or the attribution of type 2 diabetes to "family history" may be especially detrimental to poor rural communities, playing as they do into...
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