African-Americans risk_factor_for lung cancer

Subject: African-Americans
Relation: risk_factor_for
Object: lung cancer
p-value: —

Evidence from: primary | all sources

Evidence (2 sources)

Multiple cholinergic nicotinic receptor genes affect nicotine dependence risk in African and European Americans. (2010) PMID:20584212 cited

African-Americans have higher lung cancer incidence and mortality than European-Americans.

confidence: 0.96

The CHRNA5-CHRNA3-CHRNB4 nicotinic receptor subunit gene cluster affects risk for nicotine dependence in African-Americans and in European-Americans. (2009) PMID:19706762 cited

African-Americans have a higher incidence of lung cancer than European-Americans (82.7 per 100,000 versus 64.3 per 100,000)

confidence: 0.95