ArticleJournal of health and social behavior2014
Race and ancestry in the age of inclusion: technique and meaning in post-genomic science.
Article in Journal of health and social behavior, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Engaging migrants and immigrants in genetics research.Nature genetics · 2025Review
- The rise of diversity terminology in biomedical research.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- The ethical challenges of diversifying genomic data: A qualitative evidence synthesis.Cambridge prisms. Precision medicine · 2024Review
- The Challenge of Recruiting Diverse Populations into Health Research: An embedded social science perspective.New genetics and society · 2022Article
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- Ethics of inclusion: Cultivate trust in precision medicine.Science (New York, N.Y.) · 2019Article
- The potential European genetic predisposition for non-contact anterior cruciate ligament injury.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2018Article
- Knowing something versus feeling different:The effects and non-effects of genetic ancestry on racial identity.New genetics and society · 2018Article
- African ancestry is associated with facial melasma in women: a cross-sectional study.BMC medical genetics · 2017Article
- Distributive justice, diversity, and inclusion in precision medicine: what will success look like?Genetics in medicine : official journal of the American College of Medical Genetics · 2017Article
- Neither self-reported ethnicity nor declared family origin are reliable indicators of genomic ancestry.Genetica · 2016Article
- Enacting the molecular imperative: How gene-environment interaction research links bodies and environments in the post-genomic age.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Article
- Accounting for Complexity: Gene-environment Interaction Research and the Moral Economy of Quantification.Science, technology & human values · 2016Article
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Abstract
This article examines how race and ancestry are taken up in gene-environment interaction (GEI) research on complex diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer. Using 54 in-depth interviews of 33 scientists and over 200 hours of observation at scientific conferences, we explore how GEI researchers use and interpret race, ethnicity, and ancestry in their work. We find that the use of self-identified race and ethnicity (SIRE) exists alongside ancestry informative markers (AIMs) to ascertain genetic ancestry. Our participants assess the utility of these two techniques in relative terms, downplaying the accuracy and value of SIRE compared to the precision and necessity of AIMs. In doing so, we argue that post-genomic scientists seeking to understand the interactions of genetic and environmental disease determinants actually undermine their ability to do so by valorizing precise characterizations of individuals' genetic ancestry over measurement of the social processes and relations that differentiate social groups.
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