Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease. Risch, N., Burchard, E., Ziv, E., & Tang, H. Genome Biology, 3(7):comment2007, July, 2002.
Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease. [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and genetic research. An epidemiologic perspective on the issue of human categorization in biomedical and genetic research strongly supports the continued use of self-identified race and ethnicity.
@article{risch_categorization_2002,
	title = {Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease.},
	volume = {3},
	url = {http://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&id=12184798&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks},
	abstract = {A debate has arisen regarding the validity of racial/ethnic categories for biomedical and genetic research. An epidemiologic perspective on the issue of human categorization in biomedical and genetic research strongly supports the continued use of self-identified race and ethnicity.},
	language = {English},
	number = {7},
	journal = {Genome Biology},
	author = {Risch, Neil and Burchard, Esteban and Ziv, Elad and Tang, Hua},
	month = jul,
	year = {2002},
	pmid = {12184798},
	pmcid = {PMC139378},
	pages = {comment2007},
}

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