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Native American ancestry associated with more mutations in EGFR gene among Latin Americans – EurekAlert
Among patients with lung cancer from Latin America, genomic and ancestry analyses revealed that Native American ancestry was associated with increased mutations…
Bottom Line: Among patients with lung cancer from Latin America, genomic and ancestry analyses revealed that Native American ancestry was associated with increased mutations in the EGFR gene, independent of smoking status.
Journal in Which the Study was Published:Cancer Discovery, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research
Author: Matthew Meyerson, MD, PhD, director of the Center for Cancer Genomics at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston; professor of genetics and medicine at Dana-Farber…
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