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. 2003 Mar 20;348(12):1170-5.
doi: 10.1056/NEJMsb025007.

The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice

Esteban González Burchard  1 , Elad Ziv, Natasha Coyle, Scarlett Lin Gomez, Hua Tang, Andrew J Karter, Joanna L Mountain, Eliseo J Pérez-Stable, Dean Sheppard, Neil Risch
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The importance of race and ethnic background in biomedical research and clinical practice

Esteban González Burchard et al. N Engl J Med. .
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  • Medicine and the racial divide.
    Phimister EG. Phimister EG. N Engl J Med. 2003 Mar 20;348(12):1081-2. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp030028. N Engl J Med. 2003. PMID: 12646663 No abstract available.
  • Race and genomics.
    Swallen KC. Swallen KC. N Engl J Med. 2003 Jun 19;348(25):2581-2; author reply 2581-2. N Engl J Med. 2003. PMID: 12816115 No abstract available.
  • Self-reported race and genetic admixture.
    Sinha M, Larkin EK, Elston RC, Redline S. Sinha M, et al. N Engl J Med. 2006 Jan 26;354(4):421-2. doi: 10.1056/NEJMc052515. N Engl J Med. 2006. PMID: 16436780 No abstract available.

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