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Genetic ancestry and risk of mortality among U.S. Latinas with breast cancer.
Cancer research - 15 Dec 2013
Fejerman Laura, Hu Donglei, Huntsman Scott, John Esther M, Stern Mariana C, Haiman Christopher A, Pérez-Stable Eliseo J, Ziv Elad
Abstract excerpt
Multiple studies have reported that Latina women in the United States are diagnosed with breast cancer at more advanced stages and have poorer survival than non-Latina White women. However, Latinas are a heterogeneous group with individuals having different proportions of European, Indigenous American, and African genetic ancestry. In this study, we evaluated the association between genetic ancestry and survival...
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