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In 2006, David Reich and colleagues analyzed 1,597 African-American men with prostate cancer and identified a genomic region with about 2.8% higher West African ancestry that contained at least seven independent prostate-cancer risk variants more common in West African populations, a finding that could explain higher prostate-cancer incidence in African-Americans compared with European-Americans.
January 01, 2006 high temporal
Admixture mapping in African-American populations can localize genomic regions where ancestry correlates with disease risk.