African Continental Ancestry Group

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A heavy burden: the cardiovascular health consequences of having a family member incarcerated. 
  • Adoption of gene expression profile testing and association with use of chemotherapy among women with breast cancer. 
  • African descent and glaucoma evaluation study: asymmetry of structural measures in normal participants. 
  • Association between cognitive activity and cognitive function in older Hispanics. 
  • Association of Genetic Variants With Primary Open-Angle Glaucoma Among Individuals With African Ancestry. 
  • Boceprevir for untreated chronic HCV genotype 1 infection. 
  • Brief report: differences in multijoint symptomatic osteoarthritis phenotypes by race and sex: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
  • Co-occurring psychosocial problems and HIV risk among women attending drinking venues in a South African township: a syndemic approach. 
  • Common human genetic variants and HIV-1 susceptibility: a genome-wide survey in a homogeneous African population. 
  • Comparison of corneal biomechanical properties between healthy blacks and whites using the Ocular Response Analyzer. 
  • Cytochrome P450 1A1 (CYP1A1) gene polymorphisms and ovarian cancer risk: a meta-analysis. 
  • Demographic differences in health preferences in the United States. 
  • Determinants of usual source of care disparities among African American and Caribbean Black men: findings from the National Survey of American Life. 
  • Differences between African American and White research volunteers in their attitudes, beliefs and knowledge regarding genetic testing for Alzheimer's disease. 
  • Disappearing and reappearing differences in drug-eluting stent use by race. 
  • Edentulism trends among middle-aged and older adults in the United States: comparison of five racial/ethnic groups. 
  • Effect of Genetic African Ancestry on eGFR and Kidney Disease. 
  • Ethnic differences in the effects of the DASH diet on nocturnal blood pressure dipping in individuals with high blood pressure. 
  • Examining behavioral processes through which lifestyle interventions promote weight loss: results from PREMIER. 
  • Gene-centric meta-analysis of lipid traits in African, East Asian and Hispanic populations. 
  • Genetic association for renal traits among participants of African ancestry reveals new loci for renal function. 
  • Genetic variation in the dectin-1/CARD9 recognition pathway and susceptibility to candidemia. 
  • Genome-wide association analysis of blood-pressure traits in African-ancestry individuals reveals common associated genes in African and non-African populations. 
  • Genome-wide association of body fat distribution in African ancestry populations suggests new loci. 
  • Genome-wide association of pericardial fat identifies a unique locus for ectopic fat. 
  • Genome-wide linkage scan for primary open angle glaucoma: influences of ancestry and age at diagnosis. 
  • Grassroots marketing in a global era: more lessons from BiDil. 
  • HIV testing behaviors and attitudes among community recruited methamphetamine users in a South African township. 
  • HPV genotypes and cervical intraepithelial neoplasia in a multiethnic cohort in the southeastern USA. 
  • Having health insurance does not eliminate race/ethnicity-associated delays in breast cancer diagnosis in the District of Columbia. 
  • Healthcare access and mammography screening in Michigan: a multilevel cross-sectional study. 
  • Heavy drinking in early adulthood and outcomes at mid life. 
  • Hemoglobin A1c and postpartum abnormal glucose tolerance among women with gestational diabetes mellitus. 
  • High incarceration rates among black men enrolled in clinical studies may compromise ability to identify disparities. 
  • Images of illness: how causal claims and racial associations influence public preferences toward diabetes research spending. 
  • Investigating Denominational and Church Attendance Differences in Obesity and Diabetes in Black Christian Men and Women. 
  • Investigation of known genetic risk factors for primary open angle glaucoma in two populations of African ancestry. 
  • Is silent myocardial infarction more common in women with type 2 diabetes than in men? 
  • KIR genotypic diversity can track ancestries in heterogeneous populations: a potential confounder for disease association studies. 
  • Longitudinal links between spanking and children's externalizing behaviors in a national sample of White, Black, Hispanic, and Asian American families. 
  • Low hemoglobin levels and recurrent falls in U.S. men and women: prospective findings from the REasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) cohort. 
  • Low socioeconomic status associates with higher serum phosphate irrespective of race. 
  • MCP1 SNPs and pulmonary tuberculosis in cohorts from West Africa, the USA and Argentina: lack of association or epistasis with IL12B polymorphisms. 
  • Major LOXL1 risk allele is reversed in exfoliation glaucoma in a black South African population. 
  • Measuring the processes of change for increasing blood donation in black adults. 
  • Methamphetamine use is associated with childhood sexual abuse and HIV sexual risk behaviors among patrons of alcohol-serving venues in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • Mitochondrial genetic background in Ghanaian patients with primary open-angle glaucoma. 
  • Myocilin mutations in black South Africans with POAG. 
  • Neighborhood socio-economic characteristics, African ancestry, and Helicobacter pylori sero-prevalence. 
  • Neighborhood socioeconomic status, race, and mortality in young adult dialysis patients. 
  • Norms for CERAD constructional praxis recall. 
  • Obesity and diabetes genetic variants associated with gestational weight gain. 
  • On the causal interpretation of race in regressions adjusting for confounding and mediating variables. 
  • Optimizing linkage and retention to hypertension care in rural Kenya (LARK hypertension study): study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Perspectives of older African-American women on a community-based weight loss program: qualitative findings from the Senior Wellness Initiative and Take Off Pounds Sensibly (TOPS) Collaboration for Health. 
  • Potassium intake and risk of incident type 2 diabetes mellitus: the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. 
  • Prevalence of apparent treatment-resistant hypertension among individuals with CKD. 
  • Prevalence of glaucoma in an urban West African population: the Tema Eye Survey. 
  • Prevalence of kidney stones in the United States. 
  • Propensity score weighting with multilevel data. 
  • Pushing the syndemic research agenda forward: a comment on Pitpitan et al. 
  • Putting prevention in their pockets: developing mobile phone-based HIV interventions for black men who have sex with men. 
  • Race differences in access to health care and disparities in incident chronic kidney disease in the US. 
  • Race, African ancestry, and Helicobacter pylori infection in a low-income United States population. 
  • Race, gender, and risk perceptions of the legal consequences of drinking and driving. 
  • Racial and ethnic differences in physical activity and bone density: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 2007-2008. 
  • Racial differences in hepatitis C treatment eligibility. 
  • Racial differences in knee osteoarthritis pain: potential contribution of occupational and household tasks. 
  • Racial differences in postprandial mineral ion handling in health and in chronic kidney disease. 
  • Racial differences in the built environment--body mass index relationship? A geospatial analysis of adolescents in urban neighborhoods. 
  • Racial discrimination & cardiovascular disease risk: my body my story study of 1005 US-born black and white community health center participants (US). 
  • Racial disparities and the use of technology for self-management in blacks with heart failure: a literature review. 
  • Racial disparities in trajectories of dental caries experience. 
  • Regional Adiposity and Risk of Heart Failure and Mortality: The Jackson Heart Study. 
  • Relationship of race/ethnicity and survival after single umbilical cord blood transplantation for adults and children with leukemia and myelodysplastic syndromes. 
  • Retention and attrition among African Americans in the STAR*D study: what causes research volunteers to stay or stray? 
  • Retinal microvascular signs and risk of stroke: the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). 
  • Risk of hypercalcemia in blacks taking hydrochlorothiazide and vitamin D. 
  • Self-report versus ultrasound measurement of uterine fibroid status. 
  • Socioeconomic status and adolescent mental disorders. 
  • Socioeconomic status and the Black-White mortality crossover. 
  • Structure-function relationship in glaucoma using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography. 
  • Study of a US cohort supports the role of ZNF644 and high-grade myopia susceptibility. 
  • Studying health disparities by including incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals. 
  • Systolic blood pressure and adiposity: examination by race and gender in a nationally representative sample of young adults. 
  • The "invisible caregiver": multicaregiving among diabetic African-American grandmothers. 
  • The association between race and prostate cancer risk on initial biopsy in an equal access, multiethnic cohort. 
  • The association of healthcare disparities and patient-specific factors on clinical outcomes in peripheral artery disease. 
  • The chromosome 3q25 genomic region is associated with measures of adiposity in newborns in a multi-ethnic genome-wide association study. 
  • The impact of methamphetamine ("tik") on a peri-urban community in Cape Town, South Africa. 
  • The role of lysyl oxidase-like 1 DNA copy number variants in exfoliation glaucoma. 
  • Trajectory classes of body mass index in a representative elderly community sample. 
  • Trends in use of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator therapy among patients hospitalized for heart failure: have the previously observed sex and racial disparities changed over time? 
  • Use of combination antihypertensive therapy initiation in older Americans without prevalent cardiovascular disease. 
  • Validation of an atrial fibrillation risk algorithm in whites and African Americans. 
  • Whole blood lead levels are associated with biomarkers of joint tissue metabolism in African American and white men and women: the Johnston County Osteoarthritis Project. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Berchuck, Andrew, James M. Ingram Distinguished Professor of Gynecologic Oncology, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Gynecologic Oncology
  • Curtis, Lesley H., Professor in Population Health Sciences, Medicine, General Internal Medicine
  • Grambow, Steven C., Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Liu, Yutao, Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Medical Genetics
  • McLendon, Roger Edwin, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Moorman, Patricia Gripka, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Duke Cancer Institute
  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. Distinguished Professor, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Yancy Jr., William Samuel, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine