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Association of genetic ancestry with breast cancer in ethnically diverse women from Chicago.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Al-Alem Umaima, Rauscher Garth, Shah Ebony, Batai Ken, Mahmoud Abeer, Beisner Erin, Silva Abigail, Peterson Caryn, Kittles Rick
Abstract excerpt
INTRODUCTION: Non-Hispanic (nH) Black and Hispanic women are disproportionately affected by early onset disease, later stage, and with more aggressive, higher grade and ER/PR negative breast cancers. The purpose of this analysis was to examine whether genetic ancestry could account for these variation in breast cancer characteristics, once data were stratified by self-reported race/ethnicity and adjusted for...
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