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. 2022 Jun:80:104049.
doi: 10.1016/j.ebiom.2022.104049. Epub 2022 May 10.

Intersectionality and genetic ancestry: New methods to solve old problems

Carlos D Vera  1 , McKay Mullen  1 , Navjot Minhas  2 , Joseph C Wu  3
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Intersectionality and genetic ancestry: New methods to solve old problems

Carlos D Vera et al. EBioMedicine. 2022 Jun.
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Declaration of interests JCW is a co-founder and board member of Greenstone Biosciences and Khloris Biosciences, and a board member of Keystone Symposia and American Heart Association. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Researching intersectionality and ancestral differences. The combination of patient-derived iPSCs, diverse genomic cohorts, emerging genome editing technologies, and rational variables identified from intersectional studies may provide a model for testing the genetic and environmental contributions to a wide spectrum of phenotypes. Created with Biorender.com
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