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Self-reported ethnicity and genetic ancestry in relation to oral cancer and pre-cancer in Puerto Rico.

PloS one - 1 Jan 2011

Erdei Esther, Sheng Huiping, Maestas Erika, Mackey Amanda, White Kirsten A, Li Lin, Dong Yan, Taylor Justin, Berwick Marianne, Morse Douglas E

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BACKGROUND: Hispanics are known to be an extremely diverse and genetically admixed ethnic group. The lack of methodologies to control for ethnicity and the unknown admixture in complex study populations of Hispanics has left a gap in understanding certain cancer disparity issues. Incidence rates for oral and pharyngeal cancer (OPC) in Puerto Rico are among the highest in the Western Hemisphere. We conducted an...

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PMID: 21897864
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023950
PMCID: PMC3163652

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