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Socioeconomic and nutritional factors account for the association of gastric cancer with Amerindian ancestry in a Latin American admixed population.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2012
Pereira Latife, Zamudio Roxana, Soares-Souza Giordano, Herrera Phabiola, Cabrera Lilia, Hooper Catherine C, Cok Jaime, Combe Juan M, Vargas Gloria, Prado William A, Schneider Silvana, Kehdy Fernanda, Rodrigues Maira R, Chanock Stephen J, Berg Douglas E, Gilman Robert H, Tarazona-Santos Eduardo
Abstract excerpt
Gastric cancer is one of the most lethal types of cancer and its incidence varies worldwide, with the Andean region of South America showing high incidence rates. We evaluated the genetic structure of the population from Lima (Peru) and performed a case-control genetic association study to test the contribution of African, European, or Native American ancestry to risk for gastric cancer, controlling for the...
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