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10.07.2017 | Letter to the Editor
Letter to the editor: In response to “influence of clinical, societal, and treatment variables on racial difference in ER-/PR- breast cancer survival” by Roseland ME, Schwartz K, Ruterbusch JJ, Lamerato L, Krajenta R, Booza J, Simon MS
verfasst von:
Constance Hilliard
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research and Treatment
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Ausgabe 1/2017
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While I agree with this article that social determinants play an important role in explaining the higher mortality of Black women with triple-negative breast cancer, my research as an evolutionary historian, points to epigenetics as being an even more pivotal factor. The central actor is the TRPV6 gene, which has an “ancestral” variant carried by Africans and a “derived” haplotype found in Europeans and Asians. …