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Genetics and Race:
Current Research and Societal Impact
Statistics
A
Decade of ELSI Research
Researchers summarize various studies and findings which
explore the public's understanding of race and genetics,
and the potential impact of genetics on existing cultural
paradigms.
"The accelerated pace of genetic discovery has
provided novel insights into mechanisms of health and
disease. Increased human genome knowledge will impact
most Americans' lives within this decade. As part of
an ELSI project examining beliefs about individual and
group differences, we examined how Americans used genetic
terms and understood related genetic concepts."
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ALFRED
ALFRED has been designed
to make allele frequency data on anthropologically
defined human population samples readily available
to the scientific community and to link these polymorphism
data to the molecular genetics-human genome databases.
Many groups have expressed concern that the type of
data in ALFRED could
potentially be used to stigmatize or justify discrimination
against some particular ethnic group. By entering
ALFRED you agree that you will not use the data to
stigmatize or justify discrimination against any ethnic
group.
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