African Americans - Research News and Information

Wednesday, January 07, 2009

Association of HPC2/ELAC2 and RNASEL non-synonymous variants with prostate cancer risk in African American familial and sporadic cases.

29 Nov 2008 INTRODUCTION: The RNASEL and HPC2/ELAC2 genes have been implicated in hereditary prostate cancer. Further assessment of the role of these genes in sporadic prostate cancer in African American men (AAM) is warranted. METHODS: Genotyping of ... Read more...

Nucleotide excision repair genes and risk of lung cancer among San Francisco Bay Area Latinos and African Americans.

30 Oct 2008 Few studies on the association between nucleotide excision repair (NER) variants and lung cancer risk have included Latinos and African Americans. We examine variants in 6 NER genes (ERCC2, ERCC4, ERCC5, LIG1, RAD23B and XPC) in association with ... Read more...

Major deficit in the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons persists.

30 Oct 2008 INTRODUCTION: Eliminating health care disparities in the United States will require a multifaceted approach that will include increasing diversity in the health care workforce. Historically, the field of medicine, and particularly surgery, has had ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'African Americans'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Association of HPC2/ELAC2 and RNASEL non-synonymous variants with prostate cancer risk in African American familial and sporadic cases. 29 Nov 2008
• Nucleotide excision repair genes and risk of lung cancer among San Francisco Bay Area Latinos and African Americans. 30 Oct 2008
• Major deficit in the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons persists. 30 Oct 2008
• Racial disparity in the relationship between hospital volume and mortality among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting. 30 Oct 2008
• The effect of hospital and surgeon volume on racial differences in recurrence-free survival after radical prostatectomy. 30 Oct 2008
• Regulatory polymorphisms in the interleukin-18 promoter are associated with hepatitis C virus clearance. 13 Oct 2008
• Perceived family history risk and symptomatic diagnosis of prostate cancer: the North Carolina Prostate Cancer Outcomes study. 13 Oct 2008
• Racial segregation and disparities in breast cancer care and mortality. 13 Oct 2008
• Uncoupling the roles of HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DRB5 genes in multiple sclerosis. 13 Oct 2008
• Hypertension-associated kidney disease: perhaps no more. 13 Oct 2008
• Trends in hypertension prevalence, awareness, treatment, and control rates in United States adults between 1988-1994 and 1999-2004. 11 Oct 2008
• Left ventricular hypertrophy in mild and moderate reduction in kidney function determined using cardiac magnetic resonance imaging and cystatin C: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis (MESA). 6 Oct 2008
• A functional polymorphism, rs6280, in DRD3 is significantly associated with nicotine dependence in European-American smokers. 3 Oct 2008
• A reanalysis of 409 European-Ancestry and African American schizophrenia pedigrees reveals significant linkage to 8p23.3 with evidence of locus heterogeneity. 3 Oct 2008
• Association of PTPRB gene polymorphism with drug addiction. 3 Oct 2008
• Disparities in self-reported diabetes mellitus among Arab, Chaldean, and black Americans in Southeast Michigan. 29 Sep 2008
• The influence of depression on sexual risk reduction and STD infection in a controlled, randomized intervention trial. 29 Sep 2008
• Ankyrin-linked hereditary spherocytosis in an African-American kindred. 29 Sep 2008
• Coronary artery calcium scoring in the age of CT angiography: what is its role? 29 Sep 2008
• The relative importance of unmeasured covariates in racial/ethnic disparities research. 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'African Americans'

Definition: Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the black groups of Africa.

Descriptor UI: D001741

Alternative terms: African Americans; Americans, African;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.508.100.100; M01.686.754.100;

History Note: 76; was NEGROES 1963-75