Categorization of Humans in Biomedical Research: Genes, Race and Disease

Overview

Journal Genome Biol

Specialties Biology
Genetics

Date 2002 Aug 20

PMID 12184798

Citations 179

Authors

Neil Risch

Esteban Burchard

Elad Ziv

Hua Tang

Affiliations

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Abstract

A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and genetic research. An epidemiologic perspective on the issue of human categorization in biomedical and genetic research strongly supports the continued use of self-identified race and ethnicity.

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