The average number per genetic locus of private alleles ... The study also confirmed historical evidence on the slave trade that African Americans can trace most of their ancestry to speakers ...

Learn how melanoma impacts African Americans, highlighting detection challenges, survival disparities, and prevention ...

A new study by researchers at the consumer genetics company 23andMe has paired tens of thousands of genetic profiles with detailed historical records to trace the ancestry of modern-day African ...

Hulette, M.A. Pericak-Vance, J.M. Vance, "The Haw River Syndrome: Dentatorubropallidoluysian atrophy (DRPLA) in an African-American family," Nature Genetics, 7:521-4, 1994. (Cited in nearly 60 ...

Discover why African American women are disproportionately affected by uterine fibroids and learn about revolutionary treatment options that are changing lives.

Glaucoma is a complex group of eye diseases that lead to progressive dam- age to the optic nerve, often associated with increased intraocular pressure (IOP). It is one of the leading causes of ...

Circulating in the human population are common genetic variants that can make ... to contribute to two-thirds of prostate cancers in African American men and confer a fivefold range of risk.

A breakthrough study has identified the genetic risk factors that contribute to increased prostate cancer in African men. The study, the largest of its kind, recruited 7,500 men from eastern ...

Men of African and African Caribbean ancestry ... Another example of this was a 2019 study published in the American Journal of Human Genetics which used genetics to predict the risk of breast ...

The Native American variant, rs145088108, significantly increases the risk of MS in Hispanics and African Americans (OR=2.05) ...