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There are some remarkable ethnic differences in the frequency of cancer. Differences that change with migration are apparently due to the environment; those that remain constant are presumably due to inheritance, if diagnostic accuracy and reporting remain comparable.
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Miller, R.W. (1988). Epidemiologic Evidence for Genetic Variability in the Frequency of Cancer: Ethnic Differences. In: Woodhead, A.D., Bender, M.A., Leonard, R.C. (eds) Phenotypic Variation in Populations. Basic Life Sciences, vol 43. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5460-4_7
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