Texas A&M student research may link cancer in African-Americans to Vitamin D deficiency
Fri, 12/04/2015 - 12:17
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COLLEGE STATION, Nov. 18, 2015—The burden of some cancers is greater on African-Americans than on Caucasian-Americans, according to the American Cancer Society, and research being conducted by three Texas A&M University students is examining the possibility that vitamin D deficiency may be, at least partially, to blame. In “Individualized Medicine: Vitamin D’s Role in Cancer and Ethnicity-Based Medicine,” published in the fall 2015 issue of Explorations, Texas A&M’s undergraduate/research journal, authors Ashley Stonecipher, Moinuddin Syed and Shilpa Varrier theorize that cancer severity in African-Americans is due, at least in part, to differences in DNA repair capacity associated with vitamin D deficiency.
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