Health Outcomes in a Foreign Land : A Role for Epigenomic and Environmental Interaction

• Main Author: Kwabi-Addo, Bernard (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Human genetics.; Epidemiology.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Ethnicity.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319558653
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-55865-3
• Physical Description: XXVI, 324 p. 16 illus. online resource.

This stimulating volume uses multiple lenses to analyze the complex causes of health disparities affecting minorities, in particular African Americans, and explains how this knowledge can be used to reduce their destructive effects. Pinpointing genetic, non-genetic, and epigenetic factors underlying...