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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,

New England Journal of Medicine · 2021 · 660 citations · 28 references

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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...

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