Ward RM

No ORCID on file · 2 papers in corpus

2017

Admixture mapping of pelvic organ prolapse in African Americans from the Women's Health Initiative Hormone Therapy trial.

PloS one ·doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178839

Evidence suggests European American (EA) women have two- to five-fold increased odds of having pelvic organ prolapse (POP) when compared with African American (AA) women. However, the role of genetic ancestry in relation to POP risk is not …

other 2013

Phenotyping clinical disorders: lessons learned from pelvic organ prolapse

American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2012.11.030

Genetic epidemiology, the study of genetic contributions to risk for disease, is an innovative area in medicine. Although research in this arena has advanced in other disciplines, few genetic epidemiological studies have been conducted in o…