As a Korean-American, I can understand the author's sentiments, including the cultural remorse and Korean-specific emotions like han and hwa-byung.
Using this strategy we successfully genotyped selected Korean-specific mutation sites in exon 11 of BRCA1 with a wild type and two heterozygote mutant samples.
These concepts might be based on Korean-specific healthcare ideals.
Therefore, Korean-specific mapping algorithms for converting SF-36 to EQ-5D utility index are needed.
Table 2 shows 15 potentially Korean-specific novel CNVRs with an allele frequency of 5 10%.
Therefore, mapping algorithms developed in other countries might be inappropriate for Korean-specific decision making.
Taking their relatively high allele frequencies into consideration, it is possible that some of them are Korean-specific novel CNVRs which need to be considered for CNV-disease association studies in East-Asian populations (16).
In this study, we sought to identify additional ethnic Korean-specific genetic variants associated with five hematological traits: hemoglobin (Hb), hematocrit (Hct), red blood cell count (RBC), white blood cell count (WBC), and platelet count (PLT).
The purpose of this study was to estimate the burden of reproductive risk factors on the prevalence of breast and ovarian cancer in Korea using Korean-specific risk estimates.
Although several review articles and meta-analysis studies have reported stable results for RR estimates of breast and ovarian cancer risk factors, in this study, we used Korean-specific results.
Although we did not measure the quality of each study, the studies included in the meta-analysis for breast cancer were conducted within the Korean population, thus providing Korean-specific results.
