Personalized medicine and Hispanic health: improving health outcomes and reducing health disparities – a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute workshop report

Abstract Persons of Hispanic/Latino descent may represent different ancestries, ethnic and cultural groups and countries of birth. In the U.S., the Hispanic/Latino population is projected to constitute 29% of the population by 2060. A personalized approach focusing on individual variability in genet...

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Main Authors: M. Larissa Avilés-Santa, John Heintzman, Nangel M. Lindberg, Rafael Guerrero-Preston, Kenneth Ramos, Ana L. Abraído-Lanza, Jonca Bull, Adolph Falcón, Mary Ann McBurnie, Ernest Moy, George Papanicolaou, Ileana L. Piña, Jennifer Popovic, Shakira F. Suglia, Miguel A. Vázquez
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2017-10-01
Series:BMC Proceedings
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12919-017-0079-4