Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine — A Time for Reckoning with Racism

Authors: Luisa N. Borrell, Jennifer R. Elhawary, Elena Fuentes‐Afflick, Jonathan Witonsky, Nirav R. Bhakta, Alan H.B. Wu, Kirsten Bibbins‐Domingo, José Rodríguez‐Santana, Michael A. LeNoir, James R. Gavin, Rick A. Kittles, Noah Zaitlen, David S. Wilkes, Neil R. Powe, Elad Ziv, Esteban G. Burchard - New England Journal of Medicine, NEJM 2021 cited by 660

Race and Genetic Ancestry in Medicine U.S. health inequities won’t be eliminated by abandoning the use of race and ethnicity in research and clinical practice, since these variables capture key epi...