The biological status and biomedical significance of the concept of race as applied to
humans continue to be contentious issues despite the use of advanced statistical and …

Eph receptors, the largest known family of receptor tyrosine kinases, and ephrin ligands
have been implicated in a variety of human cancers. The novel bidirectional signaling …

Abstract Purpose African Americans, especially men, have a higher incidence of lung cancer
compared with all other racial and ethnic groups in the US. Self-reported race is frequently …

Individuals of European descent have historically been the focus of genetic studies and
possess relatively homogenous genomes. As a result, analytical methods have been …

Background The Puerto Rican (PR) population is a racially admixed population that has a
high prostate cancer (PCa) mortality rate. We hypothesized in this pilot study that West …

Two years after SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) was declared a global public health emergency,
the restoration, at least, to the pre-pandemic level of early diagnostic services for prostate …

The process of the colonization of the New World that occurred centuries ago served as a
natural experiment, creating unique combinations of genetic material in newly formed …

Background Recent advances in genomic and genetic technologies have facilitated better
health outcomes for urologic cancer patients. Genomic and genetic heterogeneity may …

Background Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the first cause of cancer deaths among Puerto
Ricans. The incidence and mortality of CRC in Puerto Rico continue to be on the rise. The …

Colorectal cancer contributes to cancer-related deaths and health disparities in the Hispanic
and Latino community. To probe both the biological and genetic bases of the disparities, we …