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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 29.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Genet Dev. 2007 Apr 26;17(3):177–181. doi: 10.1016/j.gde.2007.03.002

Table 1.

Diseases with epidemiological differences in prevalence on the basis of continental ancestry.

Disease Admixed population Higher risk continental population Reference
Multiple sclerosis African American European [30]
Osteoporosis African American European [31]
Prostate cancer African American African [32]
Rheumatoid arthritis Mexican American Amerindian [33]
Type 2 diabetes Mexican American Amerindian [34]
Systemic lupus erythematosus African American African [35]