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Is genetic ancestry a tool to combat health disparities?

Author(s) -

Rex L. Chisholm

Publication year - 2021

Publication title -

cell

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 26.304

H-Index - 776

eISSN - 1097-4172

pISSN - 0092-8674

DOI - 10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.038

Subject(s) - biology , race (biology) , ethnic group , genetic genealogy , construct (python library) , population , health equity , proxy (statistics) , evolutionary biology , genetics , demography , anthropology , sociology , health care , political science , computer science , botany , machine learning , programming language , law

The use of race and ethnicity in medicine has become a matter of intense debate. Currently the social construct of race and ethnicity is far from precise, serving as a poor proxy for ancestry. In this issue of Cell, Belbin et al. provide an interesting framework for better characterizing population substructure in a diverse urban environment.

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