Science and society: Taking race out of human genetics

Science

Volumn 351, Issue 6273, 2016, Pages 564-565

  Yudell, Michael ^a   Roberts, Dorothy ^b   DeSalle, Rob ^c   Tishkoff, Sarah ^b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENETICS; GENOME; HERITABILITY; RACE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS;

ANCESTRY GROUP; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RACISM; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL STATUS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION; CLASSIFICATION; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN GENOME; MEDICAL GENETICS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; TRENDS;

UNITED STATES;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, MEDICAL; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; RACISM;

EID: 84957581609     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.aac4951     Document Type: Review

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