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Bonham, Vence L; Green, Eric D; Pérez-Stable, Eliseo J
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, 10/2018, Letnik: 320, Številka: 15Journal Article
The article discusses the confusion pertaining to the use and interpretation of race, ethnicity, and ancestry data in biomedical research. The need is to understand that imprecise use of race and ethnicity data as population descriptors has the potential to miscommunicate the complex relationships among an individual's social identity, ancestry, socioeconomic status, and health, while also perpetuating misguided notions that discrete genetic groups exist. The challenge that scientists and medical journal editors must address is how to report human genomic variation without inappropriately describing racial and ethnic groups as discrete population groups.
