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Embracing Genetic Diversity to Improve Black Health

Akinyemi Oni‐Orisan, Yusuph Mavura, Yambazi Banda, Timothy A. Thornton, Ronnie Sebro

2021New England Journal of Medicine113 citationsDOIOpen Access PDF

Abstract

Embracing Genetic Diversity to Improve Black Health Ideally, race will be replaced with genetic ancestry as a variable in medical research and practice. But until more ancestry data are available, ...

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Diversity (politics)Race (biology)Genetic genealogyGenetic diversityMedicineHealth equityVariable (mathematics)GenealogyEvolutionary biologyData sciencePublic healthEnvironmental healthBiologyPopulationAnthropologyNursingSociologyGender studiesComputer scienceMathematicsMathematical analysisHistoryRace, Genetics, and SocietyBRCA gene mutations in cancerNutrition, Genetics, and Disease
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