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Confronting ethnicity-specific disease risk

Nature Genetics volume 38, pages 13–15 (2006)Cite this article

Complex diseases are influenced by many interacting genetic and environmental risk factors. A multiethnic case-control association study identifies a genetic variant for myocardial infarction that seems to confer higher risk in African Americans than in European Americans.

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Figure 1: Schematic of two interacting genetic loci.

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