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. 2014 Jan;2(1):3-6.
doi: 10.1002/mgg3.63. Epub 2014 Jan 10.

What does genomic medicine mean for diverse populations?

Adebowale Adeyemo  1 , Charles Rotimi  1
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What does genomic medicine mean for diverse populations?

Adebowale Adeyemo et al. Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2014 Jan.
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GWAS publications by ancestry of discovery sample. Source of data: NHGRI GWAS catalog – http://www.genome.gov/26525384 – accessed 11 December 2013 (n = 1774 GWAS publications). Note that early studies did not consistently label ancestry. Also, some discovery studies used multiple ancestries. Therefore, the “European ancestry” category is an underestimate. *“Hispanic/Latino” is not an ancestry, but an ethnic group. It is used here as a population label that includes “Hispanic,” “Latino,” “Mexican American,” and similar labels.
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