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  1. STAC3 Disorder - GeneReviews® - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542808
    ... South American descent). An additional individual of mixed African and Afro-Caribbean descent was a compound heterozygote for the variants c. ...
  2. Scope - Diabetic Foot Problems - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK82343
    ... having an amputation. Although people of South Asian descent and people of African and African-Caribbean origin are more at risk of diabetes, there ...
  3. Complement component 8 deficiency: MedlinePlus Genetics 
    https://medlineplus.gov/.../complement-component-8-deficiency
    ... populations, particularly in people with Hispanic, Japanese, or African Caribbean heritage, whereas type II primarily occurs in people of Northern European descent. Causes Complement component 8 deficiency is caused by ...
  4. Sickle cell disease 
    https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000527.htm
    ... disease is much more common in people of African and Mediterranean descent. It is also seen in people from South and Central America, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
  5. Huntington Disease-Like 2 - GeneReviews® - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1529
    ... HDL2) should be suspected in individuals –particularly of African descent or with African ancestry (even if distant) – who ... an estimated 44% of the population is of African descent, as many as 10% of individuals with an ...
  6. Genetics of Breast and Gynecologic Cancers (PDQ®) - PDQ Cancer Information Summaries - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65767
    ... genetic testing for breast cancer among women of African descent. Psychooncology 18 (9): 945-55, 2009. [ PMC free ... attitudes about BRCA1/2 testing among women of African descent with family histories of breast cancer. Patient Educ ...
  7. xmlmplus_topics_2024-05-09.xml 
    https://medlineplus.gov/xml/mplus_topics_2024-05-09.xml
    ... of Italian, Greek, Middle Eastern, Southern Asian, and African descent.</p> <p>Thalassemias can be mild or severe. ...
  8. List of Ongoing Studies - Future Research Needs for Outcomes of Weight Gain in Pregnancy - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK51348
    ... descent with followup studies also planned in Afro-Caribbeans, Hispanics of Mexican descent and Thais. National Human Genome Research Institute Funding: $ ...
  9. Sickle Cell Disease - GeneReviews® - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1377
    ... are present in a person of Sub-Saharan African, Indian, or Central American descent, or with a family history of SCD. Clinical ... The HbS allele is common in persons of African, Mediterranean, Middle ... in persons from the Caribbean and parts of Central and South America, but ...
  10. Genetics of Colorectal Cancer (PDQ®) - PDQ Cancer Information Summaries - NCBI Bookshelf 
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK126744
    ... Consequently, data on minorities such as Hispanics and African Americans suffer from smaller and less rigorously representative samples. A study conducted in Puerto Rico considered variants in 89 Caribbean Hispanic patients with Lynch syndrome suspected on the ...
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