Homogeneity and heterogeneity as situational properties: Producing - and moving beyond? - race in post-genomic science

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 579-599

  Shim, Janet K ^a   Darling, Katherine Weatherford ^a   Lappe, Martine D ^b   Thomson, L Katherine ^c   Lee, Sandra Soo Jin ^d   Hiatt, Robert A ^e   Ackerman, Sara L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ancestry; Environment; Ethnicity; Gene environment interaction research; Genomics; Heterogeneity; Homogeneity; Race

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HUMAN; RACISM;

GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC RESEARCH; HUMANS; RACISM;

EID: 84907756189     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312714531522     Document Type: Article

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