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Apolipoprotein [a] genotype influences isoform dominance pattern differently in African Americans and Caucasians

open access: yesJournal of Lipid Research, 2002
Plasma lipoprotein [a] (Lp[a]) concentrations are inversely associated with, and largely determined by, apolipoprotein [a] (apo[a]) gene size, a highly polymorphic trait.
Jill Rubin   +8 more
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Racial Disparities in Hidradenitis Suppurativa Management at a Single Institution

open access: yesPlastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open
Background:. Hidradenitis suppurativa (H/S) disproportionately affects African Americans. We describe those affected by this disease to evaluate potential racial disparities. Methods:.
Nikhi P. Singh, MD, MBA   +9 more
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Parsing the Gulf between Africans and African Americans

open access: yesSocial Sciences, 2018
The rise in African immigrants to the US provides an opportunity to assess relations between Africans and African Americans in college. An online survey of 322 current and recently-graduated college students (including 45 Africans, 160 African Americans,
Ashly Nsangou, Lauren Dundes
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Genome-Wide Association Studies of the PR Interval in African Americans [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The PR interval on the electrocardiogram reflects atrial and atrioventricular nodal conduction time. The PR interval is heritable, provides important information about arrhythmia risk, and has been suggested to differ among human races.
Paltoo, Dina N.   +181 more
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Ethnic and smoking associated DNA methylation changes at HIV co-receptor GPR15

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychiatry, 2015
Smoking is associated with poorer health outcomes for both African and European Americans. In order to better understand whether ethnic specific genetic variation may underlie some of these differences, we contrasted the smoking associated genome-wide ...
Meeshanthini Vijayendran Dogan   +11 more
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The effect of race/ethnicity on cancer-specific mortality after salvage radical prostatectomy

open access: yesFrontiers in Oncology, 2022
BackgroundTo test the effect of race/ethnicity on cancer-specific mortality (CSM) after salvage radical prostatectomy (SRP).Material and methodsWe relied on the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results database (SEER, 2004–2016) to identify SRP ...
Mike Wenzel   +24 more
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African Americans in Madison County, Kentucky [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Reinette Jones, Special Collections Librarian at the University of Kentucky Libraries, speak about notable Madison County African ...
Jones, Reinette F.
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Racial Differences in Circulating Natriuretic Peptide Levels: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study

open access: yesJournal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2015
Background Natriuretic peptides promote natriuresis, diuresis, and vasodilation. Experimental deficiency of natriuretic peptides leads to hypertension (HTN) and cardiac hypertrophy, conditions more common among African Americans.
Deepak K. Gupta   +14 more
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Categorizing the Racist Oppression of African-Americans in Maya Angelou's Selected Poems [PDF]

open access: yesMaǧallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb - Ǧāmiʿaẗ Al-Fayūm
This paper aims to explore Maya Angelou's poetic representation of the forms of racist oppression experienced by African-Americans in a White dominant community by employing Iris Marion Young's faces of oppression theory.
محمد سعد راتب عبدالله
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