Self-reported ethnicity and genetic ancestry in relation to oral cancer and pre-cancer in Puerto Rico.

Hispanics are known to be an extremely diverse and genetically admixed ethnic group. The lack of methodologies to control for ethnicity and the unknown admixture in complex study populations of Hispanics has left a gap in understanding certain cancer disparity issues. Incidence rates for oral and ph...

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Main Authors: Esther Erdei, Huiping Sheng, Erika Maestas, Amanda Mackey, Kirsten A White, Lin Li, Yan Dong, Justin Taylor, Marianne Berwick, Douglas E Morse
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3163652?pdf=render