The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 348, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 1170-1175

  González Burchard, Esteban ^a,b,c   Ziv, Elad ^a,b   Coyle, Natasha ^a,b,c   Gomez, Scarlett Lin ^d,f   Tang, Hua ^e   Karter, Andrew J ^g   Mountain, Joanna L ^d   Pérez Stable, Eliseo J ^a,b   Sheppard, Dean ^a,b,c   Risch, Neil ^d,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f NORTHERN CALIFORNIA CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^g DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL PRACTICE; ETHNOLOGY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC RISK; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REVIEW; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMICS;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

BIOLOGY; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; CULTURE; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC DISEASES, INBORN; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOMICS; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOLOGY;

EID: 0037456772     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMsb025007     Document Type: Review

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