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ArticleJournal of community genetics2017

Focusing attention on ancestral diversity within genomics research: a potential means for promoting equity in the provision of genomics based healthcare services in developing countries.

Nirmala D Sirisena, Vajira H W Dissanayake

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Article in Journal of community genetics, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Genetics and genomic medicine in Sri Lanka.Molecular genetics & genomic medicine · 2019
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  7. Inherited Breast Cancer in Nigerian Women.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2018
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  9. [Medical genetics services in VenezuelaServiços de genética médica na Venezuela].Revista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health · 2018
    Article
  10. Genomics for all in the 21st century?Journal of community genetics · 2017
    Article
4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Nirmala D SirisenaHuman Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Kynsey Road, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka. nirmala@anat.cmb.ac.lk.
Vajira H W DissanayakeHuman Genetics Unit, Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo, Kynsey Road, Colombo 8, Sri Lanka.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although we are well into the second decade after the completion of the International Human Genome Project, genomic research has failed to fully represent the diverse ancestry of global populations. The resultant healthcare challenges faced by populations underrepresented in genomic research needs to be tackled by the global scientific community. In this paper, we address several major factors which have contributed to the existing health disparity and put forward a combination of scientific and political interventions needed to bring about a change that will ensure all global populations benefit equally from the advances made in genomic medicine and research.

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AncestryDiversityEthnicGenomicsHealthcareResearch

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PMID28699077
PMCPMC5614882

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