Pilot GWAS of caries in African-Americans shows genetic heterogeneity
Abstract Background Dental caries is the most common chronic disease in the US and disproportionately affects racial/ethnic minorities. Caries is heritable, and though genetic heterogeneity exists between ancestries for a substantial portion of loci associated with complex disease, a genome-wide ass...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-09-01
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Series: | BMC Oral Health |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12903-019-0904-4 |