The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics

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作者
Lee, Sandra Soo-Jin [1 ,2 ]
Mountain, Joanna [3 ,4 ]
Koenig, Barbara [5 ]
Altman, Russ [6 ,7 ,8 ]
Brown, Melissa [9 ]
Camarillo, Albert [10 ]
Cavalli-Sforza, Luca [4 ]
Cho, Mildred [1 ,2 ]
Eberhardt, Jennifer [11 ]
Feldman, Marcus [12 ]
Ford, Richard [13 ]
Greely, Henry [13 ]
King, Roy [14 ]
Markus, Hazel [11 ]
Satz, Debra [15 ]
Snipp, Matthew [16 ]
Steele, Claude [11 ]
Underhill, Peter [4 ]
机构
[1] Stanford Univ, Ctr Biomed Eth, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
[2] Stanford Univ, Dept Pediat, Palo Alto, CA 94304 USA
[3] 23andMe Inc, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA
[4] Stanford Univ, Dept Genet, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[5] Mayo Clin, Program Professionalism & Bioeth, Rochester, MN 55905 USA
[6] Stanford Univ, Dept Bioengn, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[7] Stanford Univ, Dept Genet, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[8] Stanford Univ, Dept Med, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[9] Stanford Univ, Dept Anthropol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[10] Stanford Univ, Dept Hist, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[11] Stanford Univ, Dept Psychol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[12] Stanford Univ, Dept Biol Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[13] Stanford Univ, Sch Law, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[14] Stanford Univ, Dept Psychiat & Behav Sci, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[15] Stanford Univ, Dept Philosophy, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[16] Stanford Univ, Dept Sociol, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
基金
美国国家卫生研究院;
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D O I
10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-404
中图分类号
Q81 [生物工程学(生物技术)]; Q93 [微生物学];
学科分类号
071005 ; 0836 ; 090102 ; 100705 ;
摘要
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.
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