Nature Genetics 38, 13 - 15 (2006)
doi:10.1038/ng0106-13
Confronting ethnicity-specific disease riskHua Tang
Hua Tang is at the Division of Public Health Sciences, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA. huatang@fhcrc.org
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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