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SUBMITTER: Bhardwaj A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5242333 | biostudies-other | 2017 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Bhardwaj Arun A Srivastava Sanjeev K SK Khan Mohammad Aslam MA Prajapati Vijay K VK Singh Seema S Carter James E JE Singh Ajay P AP
Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) 20170101 5
Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates are remarkably higher in African-American men as compared to their European-Americans counterparts. Despite these recognitions, precise causes underlying such prevalent racial disparities remain poorly understood. Although socioeconomic factors could account for such differences up to a certain extent, it is now being increasingly realized that such disparity has a molecular basis. Indeed, several differences, including genetic polymorphism, gene mut ...[more]