The impact of health care algorithms on racial and ethnic disparities: a systematic review

SM Siddique, K Tipton, B Leas, C Jepson… - Annals of Internal …, 2024 - acpjournals.org
Background: There is increasing concern for the potential impact of health care algorithms
on racial and ethnic disparities. Purpose: To examine the evidence on how health care …

[HTML][HTML] An integrative framework and recommendations for the study of DNA methylation in the context of race and ethnicity

MH Chan, SM Merrill, C Konwar, MS Kobor - Discover Social Science and …, 2023 - Springer
Human social epigenomics research is critical to elucidate the intersection of social and
genetic influences underlying racial and ethnic differences in health and development …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding social determinants of brain health during development

DM Barch, JL Luby - American Journal of Psychiatry, 2023 - Am Psychiatric Assoc
Understanding how poverty, systemic racism, and structural inequities impact brain and
behavioral development in children and adolescents is crucial to our efforts to prevent the …

[HTML][HTML] Where the social meets the biological: new ontologies of biosocial race

A Chellappoo, J Baedke - Synthese, 2023 - Springer
In recent years, postgenomic research, and the fields of epigenetics and microbiome
science in particular, have described novel ways in which social processes of racialization …

Examining developmental plasticity in the skeletal system through a sensitive developmental windows framework

CB McPherson - American journal of physical anthropology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Developmental plasticity facilitates energetically costly but potentially fitness‐enhancing
adjustments to phenotypic trajectories in response to environmental stressors, and thus may …

Conceptualization of genotype–phenotype relationships and the assessment of risk in advertising of direct-to-consumer and preimplantation polygenic tests

MAP Zappala, L Ariza, NS Lima - BioSocieties, 2023 - Springer
Recent decades have seen the increase of genome-wide analyses performed in the general
population to compute the risk for multifactorial conditions. Polygenic risk tests, already …

Embedded racism: inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health

P Ivey Henry, MR Spence Beaulieu… - … Medicine, and Public …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Racial health disparities are a pervasive feature of modern experience and structural racism
is increasingly recognized as a public health crisis. Yet evolutionary medicine has not …

Associations of Serum Perfluoroalkyl Substances and Placental Human Chorionic Gonadotropin in Early Pregnancy, Measured in the UPSIDE Study in Rochester …

HW Liang, H Koistinen, ES Barrett, X Xun… - Environmental …, 2024 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are widely detected in pregnant
women and associated with adverse outcomes related to impaired placental function …

Epigenomic Stories: Evidence of Harm and the Social Justice Promises and Perils of Environmental Epigenetics

M Lappé, FF Fahey, RJ Hein - Science, Technology, & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This article develops the concept of epigenomic stories to analyze how scientists describe
and study the relationships between environmental epigenetics, health inequities, and …

[HTML][HTML] Follow the citations: Tracing pathways of “race as biology” assumptions in medical algorithms in eGFR and spirometry

A Fuentes, UJ Espinoza, V Cobbs - Social Science & Medicine, 2024 - Elsevier
Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, the concept of'race'as a biological unit
continues to persist in various scientific disciplines, notably in the field of medicine. This …