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Massive underrepresentation of Arabs in genomic studies of common disease
Arabs represent 5% of the world population and have a high prevalence of common disease, yet remain greatly underrepresented in genome-wide association studies, where only 1 in 600 individuals are Arab. We highlight the persistent and unaddressed underrepresentation of Arabs in genomic databases and...
Autores principales: | Bhattacharya, Romit, Chen, NingNing, Shim, Injeong, Kuwahara, Hiroyuki, Gao, Xin, Alkuraya, Fowzan S., Fahed, Akl C. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10664351/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37993966 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13073-023-01254-8 |
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