Socioeconomic and nutritional factors account for the association of gastric cancer with Amerindian ancestry in a Latin American admixed population.

Socioeconomic and nutritional factors account for the association of gastric cancer with Amerindian ancestry in a Latin American admixed population.

Gastric cancer is one of the most lethal types of cancer and its incidence varies worldwide, with the Andean region of South America showing high incidence rates. We evaluated the genetic structure of the population from Lima (Peru) and performed a case-control genetic association study to test the...

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Main Authors: Latife Pereira, Roxana Zamudio, Giordano Soares-Souza, Phabiola Herrera, Lilia Cabrera, Catherine C Hooper, Jaime Cok, Juan M Combe, Gloria Vargas, William A Prado, Silvana Schneider, Fernanda Kehdy, Maira R Rodrigues, Stephen J Chanock, Douglas E Berg, Robert H Gilman, Eduardo Tarazona-Santos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3411699?pdf=render

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