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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 95, Issue 12, Pages 2161-2168Publisher
AMER PUBLIC HEALTH ASSOC INC
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2005.068668
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- NCI NIH HHS [U01 CA086117, U01CA86117] Funding Source: Medline
- NHLBI NIH HHS [K23 HL04464, HL07185, T32 HL007185, K23 HL004464] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM61390, U01 GM061390, U19 GM061390] Funding Source: Medline
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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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