Wednesday 10 October 2018

Genetic Traits?

It has been claimed, by some scientists, that genetic research tends to focus on white, European stock, leaving other ethnicities unrepresented (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/08/genetics-research-biased-towards-studying-white-europeans). The claim is that this prevents some groups from fully benefiting from the resulting research findings. I'm sure there is probably (an unconscious?) bias at present but will be surprised if research on people of Asian stock doesn't become more prominent in the near future. Perhaps later UK studies will try to balance the full range of ethnicities (along with gender, age and socio-economic circumstances).

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