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Taking race out of human genetics

Yudell, Michael, Roberts, Dorothy, DeSalle, Rob, Tishkoff, Sarah·2016·Science

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Engaging a century-long debate about the role of race in science

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  • Even as genomics researchers warn not to interpret genetic ancestry as race or ethnicity, this has not prevented people from interpreting them as such.

    “Even as genomics researchers warn not to interpret genetic ancestry as race or ethnicity [15, 122], this has not prevented people (e.g. customers of direct-to-consumer genetic testing companies) from interpreting them as such [98].”

    From Towards a critical race methodology in algorithmic fairness (2020) · cites this paper as [122]

  • When disconnected from their social and political histories, racial categories have no place in biological research.

    “However, when disconnected from their social and political histories, racial categories have no place in biological research [30, 90, 122].”

    From Towards a critical race methodology in algorithmic fairness (2020) · cites this paper as [122]

  • Genetics, biomedical researchers, and sociologists of science have emphasized the importance of distinguishing ancestry from racial taxonomies within biomedical research and have warned against the dangers of using racial categories to describe genetic variation.

    “Genetics, biomedical researchers, and sociologists of science have emphasized the importance of distinguishing ancestry from racial taxonomies within biomedical research [40, 49, 84] and have warned against the dangers of of using racial categories to describe genetic variation [14, 30, 122].”

    From Towards a critical race methodology in algorithmic fairness (2020) · cites this paper as [122]

  • Some objections to the use of race as a variable in prediction models have little to do with unfairness as described here.

    “We also acknowledge that some objections to the use of race as a variable in prediction models have little to do with unfairness as described here49.”

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Authors
Yudell, M., Roberts, D., DeSalle, R., & Tishkoff, S.
Affiliations
  • Drexel University (US)
  • University of Pennsylvania (US)
  • American Museum of Natural History (US)
Corresponding author
Yudell, Michael
Venue
Science
Published
2016-02-05
Volume
351
Issue
6273
Pages
564-565
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2263626698
Cited by
631
References
19
Citations by year
2026: 35 · 2025: 34 · 2024: 44 · 2023: 59 · 2022: 97 · 2021: 104 · 2020: 111 · 2019: 40 · 2018: 44 · 2017: 33 · 2016: 24
FWCI
37.93
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Penn Carey Law Legal Scholarship Repository (University of Pennsylvania) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Race, Genetics, and Society
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Medical History and Research
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History and Philosophy of Science › Philosophy and History of Science
Keywords
race, human genetics, racial classification, social construction of race
MeSH terms
Genetics, Medical, Humans, Genetic Variation, Genome, Human, Racial Groups, Racism

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