The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics
Open Access
- 1 January 2008
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Genome Biology
- Vol. 9 (7), 404
- https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-404
Abstract
We are a multidisciplinary group of Stanford faculty who propose ten principles to guide the use of racial and ethnic categories when characterizing group differences in research into human genetic variation.Keywords
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