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From colorectal cancer pattern to the characterization of individuals at risk: picture for genetic research in Latin America
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2019)
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Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the most common cancers in Latin America and the Caribbean, with the highest rates reported for Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. We provide a global snapshot of the CRC patterns, how screening ...
Extreme High Prevalence of a Defective Mannose-Binding Lectin (MBL2 ) Genotype in Native South American West Andean Populations
(PLOS ONE, 2014)
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Mannose-binding lectin (MBL) is one of the five recognition molecules in the lectin complement pathway. Common variant
alleles in the promoter and structural regions of the human MBL gene (MBL2) influence the stability ...
Frequencies of Blood Group Systems MNS, Diego, and Duffy and Clinical Phases of Carrion’s Disease in Amazonas, Peru
(Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases, 2014)
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Carrion’s disease (CD), is a human bartonellosis, that is, endemic in the Andes of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia. Bartonella
bacilliformis, a native hemotrophic bacteria, is the causative agent of CD, and the interaction ...