Nina Steele, PhD. Photo/University of Cincinnati.

Led by Nina Steele, PhD, assistant professor in UC’s College of Medicine, in collaboration with Howard Crawford, PhD, scientific director of the Henry Ford + Michigan State University Pancreatic Cancer Center, the research was recently published in the journal Cancer Research.

Incidence and survival rates of pancreatic cancer vary between different populations of Americans, but sufficient data did not previously exist to determine specific genomic differences between populations.