TY - JOUR
T1 - Latino populations
T2 - A unique opportunity for the study of race, genetics, and social environment in epidemiological research
AU - González Burchard, Esteban
AU - Borrell, Luisa N.
AU - Choudhry, Shweta
AU - Naqvi, Mariam
AU - Tsai, Hui Ju
AU - Rodriguez-Santana, Jose R.
AU - Chapela, Rocio
AU - Rogers, Scott D.
AU - Mei, Rui
AU - Rodriguez-Cintron, William
AU - Arena, Jose F.
AU - Kittles, Rick
AU - Perez-Stable, Eliseo J.
AU - Ziv, Elad
AU - Risch, Neil
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2011 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2005/12
Y1 - 2005/12
N2 - Latinos are the largest minority population in the United States. Although usually classified as a single ethnic group by researchers, Latinos are heterogeneous from cultural, socioeconomic, and genetic perspectives. From a cultural and social perspective. Latinos represent a wide variety of national origins and ethnic and cultural groups, with a full spectrum of social class. From a genetic perspective, Latinos are descended from indigenous American, European, and African populations. We review the historical events that led to the formation of contemporary Latino populations and use results from recent genetic and clinical studies to illustrate the unique opportunity Latino groups offer for studying the interaction between racial, genetic, and environmental contributions to disease occurrence and drug response.
AB - Latinos are the largest minority population in the United States. Although usually classified as a single ethnic group by researchers, Latinos are heterogeneous from cultural, socioeconomic, and genetic perspectives. From a cultural and social perspective. Latinos represent a wide variety of national origins and ethnic and cultural groups, with a full spectrum of social class. From a genetic perspective, Latinos are descended from indigenous American, European, and African populations. We review the historical events that led to the formation of contemporary Latino populations and use results from recent genetic and clinical studies to illustrate the unique opportunity Latino groups offer for studying the interaction between racial, genetic, and environmental contributions to disease occurrence and drug response.
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U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2005.068668
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2005.068668
M3 - Review article
C2 - 16257940
AN - SCOPUS:28444459900
VL - 95
SP - 2161
EP - 2168
JO - American Journal of Public Health
JF - American Journal of Public Health
SN - 0090-0036
IS - 12
ER -