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