Different differences: The use of 'genetic ancestry' versus race in biomedical human genetic research

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 5-30

  Fujimura, Joan H ^a   Rajagopalan, Ramya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

ancestry; biomedical genetics; ethnography; genome geography; population; race; socio material practice

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; RACE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; STANDARD;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENETIC RESEARCH; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; HUMANS; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 78751490648     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312710379170     Document Type: Article

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