The relationship between "race" and genetics and biomedical research

Current Hypertension Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 196-201

  Torres, Jada Benn ^b   Kittles, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DNA SEQUENCE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENE MAPPING; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HEALTH STATUS; HEREDITY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NATURAL SELECTION; POPULATION GENETICS; RACE DIFFERENCE; RACISM; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; SELECTION (GENETICS); VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 34250202926     PISSN: 15226417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11906-007-0035-1     Document Type: Review

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