Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine — A Time for Reckoning with Racism
Luisa N. Borrell, Jennifer R. Elhawary, Elena Fuentes‐Afflick, Jonathan Witonsky, Nirav R. Bhakta, Alan H.B. Wu, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, José Rodríguez‐Santana, Michael A. LeNoir, James R. Gavin, Rick A. Kittles, Noah Zaitlen, David S. Wilkes, Neil R. Powe, Elad Ziv, Esteban G. Burchard
Abstract
Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine U.S. health inequities won’t be eliminated by abandoning the use of race and ethnicity in research and clinical practice, since these variables capture key epi...
Topics & Concepts
Race (biology)Genetic genealogyRacismEthnic groupRace and healthKey (lock)DemographyMedicineHealth equitySociologyBiologyAnthropologyGender studiesPathologyPopulationPublic healthEcologyRace, Genetics, and SocietyBRCA gene mutations in cancerEthics in Clinical Research