Q&A: Race, medicine and the future power of genetic ancestry

Jake Ellison — Thu, 25 Feb 2021 17:02:24 +0000

Writing in the New England Journal of Medicine that they “do not believe that ignoring race will reduce health disparities” but rather that “such an approach is a form of naive ‘color blindness’ that is more likely to perpetuate and potentially exacerbate disparities,” five Black geneticists set out to explain the pitfalls of leaving race out of medicine. Importantly, the geneticists explain, while it is imperative to be considered now in many settings, race is an imperfect stepping stone toward...

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Timothy Thornton – UW News

Q&A: Race, medicine and the future power of genetic ancestry