<![CDATA[BOL: Make Genomic Research Less Ethnically-Biased]]> https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5963/make-genomic-research-less-ethnically-biased? https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5963/make-genomic-research-less-ethnically-biased Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:08:17 -0500 https://bioinformaticsonline.com/news/view/5963/make-genomic-research-less-ethnically-biased <![CDATA[Make Genomic Research Less Ethnically-Biased]]> Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Hélu, the world’s 2nd-richest man, is giving an additional $74 million to a genomics center in Boston in order to right a bias in the field–a kind of scientific racism, you might call it. The problem: most samples of DNA analyzed in biomedical research come from people of European descent.

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