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Esther A. Torres
Researcher at University of Puerto Rico
Publications - 94
Citations - 1403
Esther A. Torres is an academic researcher from University of Puerto Rico. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Inflammatory bowel disease. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 76 publications receiving 1245 citations.
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Long-Range LD Can Confound Genome Scans in Admixed Populations
Alkes L. Price,Alkes L. Price,Michael E. Weale,Nick Patterson,Simon Myers,Simon Myers,Anna C. Need,Kevin V. Shianna,Dongliang Ge,Jerome I. Rotter,Esther A. Torres,Kent D. Taylor,David Goldstein,David Reich,David Reich +14 more
TL;DR: This research was supported in part by grant M01-RR00425 to the Cedars-Sinai GCRC genotyping core, and by NIH grant DK62413 (K.D.I.T).
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Inflammatory bowel disease characteristics among african americans, hispanics, and non-hispanic whites : Characterization of a large North American cohort
Geoffrey C. Nguyen,Esther A. Torres,Miguel Regueiro,Gillian Bromfield,Alain Bitton,Joanne M. Stempak,Themistocles Dassopoulos,Philip Schumm,Federico Gregory,Anne M. Griffiths,Stephen B. Hanauer,Jennifer Hanson,Mary L. Harris,Sunanda V. Kane,Heather Kiraly Orkwis,Raymond G. Lahaie,Maria Oliva-Hemker,Pierre Paré,Gary Wild,John D. Rioux,John D. Rioux,Huiying Yang,Richard H. Duerr,Judy H. Cho,A. Hillary Steinhart,Steven R. Brant,Mark S. Silverberg +26 more
TL;DR: There are racial differences in IBD family history, disease location and behavior, surgical history, and EIMs that may reflect underlying genetic variations and have important implications for diagnosis and management of disease.
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Seroprevalence of hepatitis C virus and associated risk behaviours: a population-based study in San Juan, Puerto Rico
TL;DR: The large prevalence ofHCV infection observed in Puerto Rican adults residing in San Juan suggest that HCV infection is an emerging public health concern and merits further investigation.
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Seroepidemiology of viral hepatitis, HIV and herpes simplex type 2 in the household population aged 21-64 years in Puerto Rico
Cynthia M. Pérez,Edmir Marrero,Marytere Meléndez,Sandra Adrovet,Héctor M. Colón,Ana P. Ortiz,Marievelisse Soto-Salgado,Carmen Albizu,Esther A. Torres,Erick Suárez +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a seroepidemiologic survey was employed using a stratified cluster probability sample of households in Puerto Rico to estimate prevalence estimates of serologic markers of hepatitis, HBV, HAV, HIV and HSV-2 in the adult population of Puerto Rico and assessed variations across sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics.
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Prevalence of inflammatory bowel disease in an insured population in Puerto Rico during 1996.
TL;DR: The estimated prevalence of IBD in this insured population in Puerto Rico places it among the middle-range of that reported for other countries.