Genetic Research Has a Big Bias Problem, And We Can’t Keep Ignoring It – ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/we-re-still-not-doing-enough-to-make-our-genetics-studies-unbiased

The statistics tell their own story: as of 2018, individuals included in genome-wide association studies (GWAS) were 78 percent European, 10 percent Asian, 2 percent African, 1 percent Hispanic, and less than 1 percent all other ethnic groups.

 

 

 

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