Overview of prostate cancer in indigenous black Africans and blacks of African ancestry in diaspora 1935-2007

East African Medical Journal

Volumn 84, Issue 9 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Magoha, G A O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HUMAN; MALE; NEGRO; PROSTATE TUMOR; REVIEW;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS;

EID: 36349031104     PISSN: 0012835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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