Biogeographical ancestry is associated with socioenvironmental conditions and infections in a Latin American urban population

• Main Authors: Thiago Magalhães da Silva (Author), Rosemeire L. Fiaccone (Author), Fernanda S.G. Kehdy (Author), Eduardo Tarazona-Santos (Author), Laura C. Rodrigues (Author), Gustavo N.O. Costa (Author), Camila A. Figueiredo (Author), Neuza Maria Alcantara-Neves (Author), Maurício L. Barreto (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Racial inequalities are observed for different diseases and are mainly caused by differences in socioeconomic status between ethnoracial groups. Genetic factors have also been implicated, and recently, several studies have investigated the association between biogeographical ancestry (BGA) and compl...