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At an age when the nation simmers over the practice of racial profiling and debates whether race continues to have any real meaning, recent findings point toward a provocative conclusion: that some racial variations may be secretly encoded in the genes, and those variations may cause individuals of one skin color to become inherently more or less susceptible to certain disorders than people whose complexion is different. In brief, on issues of health, it appears that race matters. ... Many worry that race will once more be seen as a significant dividing line, not merely as an anachronistic social distinction. ...
However, at research institutions and hospitals across the country, the linkage of race, genes and disease is met with less and less skepticism. ...
To further evaluate this correlation between race and breast cancer, we look to another study on the BP1 gene, which is a novel homeobox gene cloned in one Biomed Central laboratory (Fu 2). ... For example, poorer women regardless of their race/ethnicity have children early in life and affluent women have children later or not at all (Motamedi 9). ...
The relationship between breast cancer risk and socioeconomic position is poorly understood, but it has been found to be related to a complicated mixture of features including education, family income, related features of diet and living conditions, genetics, as well as access to health care. ...
Thus, variations in breast cancer death rates among race can result from a combination of factors such as behaviors, diet, access to therapeutic and preventive services, and socioeconomic factors .
Approximate Word count = 1989
Approximate Pages = 8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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