Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine — A Time for Reckoning with Racism
By Luisa N. Borrell, Jennifer R. Elhawary, Elena Fuentes-Afflick, et al., New England Journal of Medicine, February 4, 2020 In the United States, race, ancestry, genetics, and medicine are inextricably linked in a complex and fraught history. Medicine is replete with examples of racial injustice inflicted by the use of race and ethnicity as biologic constructs to engender hierarchical discrimination. Race and ethnicity are dynamic, shaped by geographic, cultural, and sociopolitical forces;...