Genetics research 'biased towards studying white Europeans'

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Guno צְבִי

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People from minority ethnic backgrounds are set to lose out on medical benefits of genetics research due to an overwhelming bias towards studying white European populations, a leading scientist has warned.

Prof David Curtis, a geneticist and psychiatrist at University College London, has called on funding bodies to do more to address the emerging issue that genetic tests developed using samples from white Europeans can give meaningless results when applied to other ethnic groups. The problem could intensify as the clinical applications of genetics expand over the next decade.

This means that in the UK today we can test a white British subject and tell them their risk of diabetes or schizophrenia, but if they are of a different ethnicity we cannot offer them the test,” said Curtis.


https://www.theguardian.com/science...earch-biased-towards-studying-white-europeans
 
Did anybody know this:

"When our ancestors first migrated out of Africa around 70,000 years ago, they were not alone. At that time, at least two other species of hominid cousins walked the Eurasian landmass—Neanderthals and Denisovans. As our modern human ancestors migrated through Eurasia, they encountered the Neanderthals and interbred. Because of this, a small amount of Neanderthal DNA was introduced into the modern human gene pool."

"Everyone living outside of Africa today has a small amount of Neanderthal in them, carried as a living relic of these ancient encounters. A team of scientists comparing the full genomes of the two species concluded that most Europeans and Asians have approximately 2 percent Neanderthal DNA. Indigenous sub-Saharan Africans have none, or very little Neanderthal DNA because their ancestors did not migrate through Eurasia."
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/neanderthal/
 
You aren't going to have a lot of subjects to work with if you look for blacks with cystic fibrosis to work with.
 
Jack said:
Did anybody know this:

"When our ancestors first migrated out of Africa around 70,000 years ago, they were not alone. At that time, at least two other species of hominid cousins walked the Eurasian landmass—Neanderthals and Denisovans. As our modern human ancestors migrated through Eurasia, they encountered the Neanderthals and interbred. Because of this, a small amount of Neanderthal DNA was introduced into the modern human gene pool."
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Didn't Neanderthals come out of Africa too?
 
Magaraja said:
Didn't Neanderthals come out of Africa too?
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It does not appear that way. I think there were like 15 different hominid types that evolved and competed for survival. Neanderthal and Denisovan DNA has (somewhat recently) been found in non sub-Saharan Modern People.

I only tossed it in because guno loves talking about 'race'.
 
Magaraja said:
Didn't Neanderthals come out of Africa too?
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I guess I'm wrong.

"Like other humans, Neanderthals originated in Africa but migrated to Eurasia long before other humans did. Neanderthals lived across Eurasia, as far north and west as the Britain, through part of the Middle East, to Uzbekistan. Popular estimates put the peak Neanderthal population around 70,000, though some scientists put the number drastically lower, at around 3,500 females."
https://www.livescience.com/28036-neanderthals-facts-about-our-extinct-human-relatives.html

:(
 
They had bigger brains, so perhaps they knew when it was time to leave it to the Suicide Squad and global overheating!
 
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