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The impact of genetic variability on liver disease in the Hispanic/Latin-American population.
Autoimmunity - 1 Nov 2011
Lau-Corona Dana, Kershenobich David, Gutierrez-Reyes Gabriela
Abstract excerpt
Liver cirrhosis is within the top 10 causes of death in Latin-American countries and recent evidence suggests that Hispanics in the USA have a more aggressive course of many types of liver disease and show lower response to treatment of hepatitis C compared with other ethnic groups. Although environmental factors are very important, they do not appear to fully account for the observed ethnic differences in the...
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