Self-Reported Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry in Relation to Oral Cancer and Pre-Cancer in Puerto Rico

Esther Erdei; Huiping Sheng; Erika Maestas; Amanda Mackey; Kirsten A. White; Lin Li; Yan Dong; Justin Taylor; Marianne Berwick; Douglas E. Morse

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023950

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Self-Reported Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry in Relation to Oral Cancer and Pre-Cancer in Puerto Rico

Esther Erdei ,

* E-mail: EErdei@salud.unm.edu

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Huiping Sheng,

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Erika Maestas,

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Amanda Mackey,

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Kirsten A. White,

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Lin Li,

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Yan Dong,

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Justin Taylor,

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Marianne Berwick,

Affiliation Molecular Epidemiology Laboratory of the Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Internal Medicine and the University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Cancer Epidemiology and Cancer Prevention Program at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
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Douglas E. Morse

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Health Promotion, College of Dentistry, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America
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Self-Reported Ethnicity and Genetic Ancestry in Relation to Oral Cancer and Pre-Cancer in Puerto Rico

Esther Erdei,
Huiping Sheng,
Erika Maestas,
Amanda Mackey,
Kirsten A. White,
Lin Li,
Yan Dong,
Justin Taylor,
Marianne Berwick,
Douglas E. Morse

Published: August 29, 2011
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0023950

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