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Duffy Antigen/Receptor for Chemokines (DARC): Is There a Role in Prostate Cancer?.
(science direct, 2005)
Introduction: The Duffy blood group antigens function as chemokine receptors and as receptors for several species of malarial parasites. Approximately 70% of African Americans are Duffy negative as a result of a single ...
Characteristics, complications, and gaps in evidence-based interventions in rheumatic heart disease: the Global Rheumatic Heart Disease Registry (the REMEDY study)
(Oxford University Press, 2015)
This prospective registry enrolled 3343 patients (median age 28 years, 66.2% female) presenting with RHD at 25 hospitals in 12 African countries, India, and Yemen between January 2010 and November 2012. The majority (63.9%) ...
Heart disease and stroke statistics—2017 update: a report from the American Heart Association
(Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2017)
Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies, brings together in a single document ...
Prediction of BRCA Mutations Using the BRCAPRO Model in Clinic-Based African American, Hispanic, and Other Minority Families in the United States
(American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2009)
BRCAPRO, a BRCA mutation carrier prediction model, was developed on the basis of studies in individuals of Ashkenazi Jewish and European ancestry. We evaluated the performance of the BRCAPRO model among clinic-based minority ...
Haemostatic disorders in patients with breast cancer at Kenyatta national hospital, Kenya
(University of Nairobi, 2010)
Haemostatic disorders (thrombosis and haemorrhage) are increasingly being investigated and
assessed as factors that influence outcome of treatment of solid tumors including breast
cancer. There is little data available ...