Nassir R

ORCID: 0000-0001-9914-7851 · 3 papers in corpus
2018
Identification of nine new susceptibility loci for endometrial cancer.
Nature communications ·doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05427-7

Endometrial cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer of the female reproductive tract in developed countries. Through genome-wide association studies (GWAS), we have previously identified eight risk loci for endometrial cancer. Here, we…

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 …

2013
Relationship between hysterectomy and admixture in African American women.
American journal of obstetrics and gynecology ·doi:10.1016/j.ajog.2013.01.027

ObjectiveMost studies suggest that hysterectomies are more common in African American women than in other ethnic groups. To assess this ethnic surgical disparity in a novel way, our main goal was to determine whether admixture (the proporti…