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Elad Ziv

Professor of Medicine,University of California, San Francisco
Verified email at ucsf.edu
Cited by 23919

[HTML][HTML] Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

VA Zavala, PM Bracci, JM Carethers… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
There are well-established disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes by race/ethnicity
that result from the interplay between structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental …

Prevention of breast cancer in postmenopausal women: approaches to estimating and reducing risk

SR Cummings, JA Tice, S Bauer… - Journal of the …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Background It is uncertain whether evidence supports routinely estimating a
postmenopausal woman's risk of breast cancer and intervening to reduce risk. Methods We …

Breast cancer screening in the precision medicine era: risk-based screening in a population-based trial

Y Shieh, M Eklund, L Madlensky… - Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Ongoing controversy over the optimal approach to breast cancer screening has led to
discordant professional society recommendations, particularly in women age 40 to 49 years …

[PDF][PDF] The immune landscape of cancer

V Thorsson, DL Gibbs, SD Brown, D Wolf, DS Bortone… - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
We performed an extensive immunogenomic analysis of more than 10,000 tumors
comprising 33 diverse cancer types by utilizing data compiled by TCGA. Across cancer …

[PDF][PDF] The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice

EG Burchard, E Ziv, N Coyle, SL Gomez… - New England Journal …, 2003 - academia.edu
A debate has recently arisen over the use of racial classification in medicine and biomedical
research. In particular, with the completion of a rough draft of the human genome, some …

[HTML][HTML] Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease

N Risch, E Burchard, E Ziv, H Tang - Genome biology, 2002 - Springer
A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and
genetic research. Some claim'no biological basis for race'while others advocate a'race …

[HTML][HTML] Race and genetic ancestry in medicine—a time for reckoning with racism

LN Borrell, JR Elhawary, E Fuentes-Afflick… - … England Journal of …, 2021 - Mass Medical Soc
Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine US health inequities won't be eliminated by
abandoning the use of race and ethnicity in research and clinical practice, since these …

[HTML][HTML] Reduced neutrophil count in people of African descent is due to a regulatory variant in the Duffy antigen receptor for chemokines gene

D Reich, MA Nalls, WHL Kao, EL Akylbekova… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Persistently low white blood cell count (WBC) and neutrophil count is a well-described
phenomenon in persons of African ancestry, whose etiology remains unknown. We recently …

Latino populations: a unique opportunity for the study of race, genetics, and social environment in epidemiological research

E González Burchard, LN Borrell… - … journal of public …, 2005 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Latinos are the largest minority population in the United States. Although usually classified
as a single ethnic group by researchers, Latinos are heterogeneous from cultural …

Association of common genetic variation in the insulin/IGF1 signaling pathway with human longevity

L Pawlikowska, D Hu, S Huntsman, A Sung, C Chu… - Aging cell, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The insulin/IGF1 signaling pathways affect lifespan in several model organisms, including
worms, flies and mice. To investigate whether common genetic variation in this pathway …