Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease

A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and genetic research. Some claim 'no biological basis for race' while others advocate a 'race-neutral' approach, using genetic clustering rather than self-identified ethnicity for human genetic...

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Autores principales: Risch, Neil, Burchard, Esteban, Ziv, Elad, Tang, Hua
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2002
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12184798
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author Risch, Neil
Burchard, Esteban
Ziv, Elad
Tang, Hua
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Tang, Hua
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description A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and genetic research. Some claim 'no biological basis for race' while others advocate a 'race-neutral' approach, using genetic clustering rather than self-identified ethnicity for human genetic categorization. We provide an epidemiologic perspective on the issue of human categorization in biomedical and genetic research that strongly supports the continued use of self-identified race and ethnicity.
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spelling pubmed-1393782003-03-04 Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease Risch, Neil Burchard, Esteban Ziv, Elad Tang, Hua Genome Biol Opinion A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and genetic research. Some claim 'no biological basis for race' while others advocate a 'race-neutral' approach, using genetic clustering rather than self-identified ethnicity for human genetic categorization. We provide an epidemiologic perspective on the issue of human categorization in biomedical and genetic research that strongly supports the continued use of self-identified race and ethnicity. BioMed Central 2002 2002-07-01 /pmc/articles/PMC139378/ /pubmed/12184798 Text en Copyright © 2002 BioMed Central Ltd
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Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease
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title_full_unstemmed Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease
title_short Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease
title_sort categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC139378/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12184798
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