Conflating race and ancestry: Tracing decision points about population descriptors over the precision medicine research life course

Summary: Responding to calls for human genomics to shift away from the use of race, genomic investigators are coalescing around the possibility of using genetic ancestry. This shift has renewed questions about the use of social and genetic concepts of difference in precision medicine research (PMR)....

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Main Authors: Michael Bentz, Aliya Saperstein, Stephanie M. Fullerton, Janet K. Shim, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-01-01
Series:HGG Advances
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666247723000751