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Open AccessInjury-related mortality among adolescents: findings from a teaching hospital's post mortem data
Injuries are noted to be an important cause of death among adolescents. There is however limited data on the injury related deaths among adolescents in Ghana.
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Genome-wide association study of prostate cancer in men of African ancestry identifies a susceptibility locus at 17q21
Christopher Haiman and colleagues report a genome-wide association study for prostate cancer in African-American males drawn from 11 epidemiological studies of prostate cancer, with replication including indiv...
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Open AccessCause of death among Ghanaian adolescents in Accra using autopsy data
There is limited data on adolescent mortality particularly from develo** countries with unreliable death registration systems. This calls for the use of other sources of data to ascertain cause of adolescent...
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A meta-analysis of 87,040 individuals identifies 23 new susceptibility loci for prostate cancer
Rosalind Eeles, Christopher Haiman and colleagues report genome-wide association and meta-analyses of prostate cancer in populations of European, African, Japanese and Latino ancestry. They identify 23 new sus...
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Open AccessThrough the lens of the clinician: autopsy services and utilization in a large teaching hospital in Ghana
Declining hospital autopsy rates in many countries have generated considerable concern. The survey determined challenges of the autopsy service in a large Teaching Hospital in Ghana, from the perspective of cl...
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Characterizing prostate cancer risk through multi-ancestry genome-wide discovery of 187 novel risk variants
The transferability and clinical value of genetic risk scores (GRSs) across populations remain limited due to an imbalance in genetic studies across ancestrally diverse populations. Here we conducted a multi-a...