This review explores the limitations of self-reported race, ethnicity, and genetic ancestry in
biomedical research. Various terminologies are used to classify human differences in …

Extensive development of inhaled and oral glucocorticoids has resulted in highly potent
molecules that have been optimized to target activity to the lung and minimize systemic …

Mexico harbors great cultural and ethnic diversity, yet fine-scale patterns of human genome-
wide variation from this region remain largely uncharacterized. We studied genomic …

The current debate over racial inequalities in health is arguably the most important venue for
advancing both scientific and public understanding of race, racism, and human biological …

Hispanic/Latino populations possess a complex genetic structure that reflects recent
admixture among and potentially ancient substructure within Native American, European …

To provide a resource for assessing continental ancestry in a wide variety of genetic studies,
we identified, validated, and characterized a set of 128 ancestry informative markers (AIMs) …

Latinos are the largest minority population in the United States. Although usually classified
as a single ethnic group by researchers, Latinos are heterogeneous from cultural …

Pharmacogenetics is being used to develop personalized therapies specific to subjects from
different ethnic or racial groups. To date, pharmacogenetic studies have been primarily …

This paper presents an ethnographic case study of the use of race in two interconnected
laboratories of medical genetics. Specifically, it examines how researchers committed to …

Admixture mapping is an economical and powerful approach for localizing disease genes in
populations of recently mixed ancestry and has proven successful in African Americans. The …