This means that the association between discordance and self-reported ethnic minority group cannot be explained by ethnic minority patients attending hospitals that have poor levels of accuracy of ethnicity information overall.
These facts to a large extent explain why the minority of women not participating in the organised screening represents around 65% of all cervical cancer cases (Andrae et al, 2008).
Understanding the genetic contributions to ischemic stroke is important not only so as to explain, or predict, the minority of cases that occur in the absence of well-established risk factors, such as smoking, hypertension and diabetes [2], but also to account for wide variability of stroke incidence within individuals who do harbour these common, acquired risk-factors [3].
Of course, the same intersecting logics of ethnic and class division that explain the over-representation of minority groups in professional football also explain their relative absence from high-cost football tourism and the commanding heights of the game.
Instead of stoking anti-Muslim sentiment by claiming, as Germany's interior minister has, that Islam has no place in a country, explain the importance of integrating minorities.
"Policy Implications of Culturally Based Perceptions in College Choice , which was published in the November 2005 edition of Review of Policy Research, attempts to explain the low number of minorities applying to college and the high failure and dropout rates of students of color once they make it onto campus.
Allelic variation would also explain the presence of majority and minority sequences in groups of sequences, and fits with the disproportionate presence of these sequences in different populations of P. carinii.
Though the Calgary data excluded admissions to coronary care units, this can only explain a minority of the difference, as such patients comprised just 20% of admissions to Winnipeg ICUs.
Other topics he raised included how microarrays and high-throughput sequencing are transforming patient diagnosis, the efficacy of aspirin as a long-term treatment to reduce the incidence of colon cancer, and an amusing but very informative discussion about why genetics may apparently only be able to identify variants that explain a minority of the variance in a particular trait.
These ideas may also help to explain the emergence of NSSI among sexual minority youth who have experiences of social exclusion.
