Genetic mutations and molecular alterations may explain racial differences in head and neck cancers




A team of scientists at Johns Hopkins and in Texas has identified a handful of genetic mutations in black Americans, in addition to some chemical alterations affecting gene activity, which may help explain why the death rate among African-Americans from the most common form of head and neck cancer continues to hover some 18 percent higher above the death rate of whites with the same cancer.

Fuente : http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-12/jhm...

Sábado, 7 de Diciembre 2013
Jueves, 1 de Enero 1970
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