There is interesting debate over whether polygenic risk assesments will ever truly be clinically useful (beyond risk assesments conducted today.) But as it stands, those assesments won't be equitable, working on everyone.
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There are important things not to confuse here. Genetic risk scores derived from Europeans don't translate as well to other people. That's **not** because we're so biologically different. Or because race is a "biological construct."
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It's because the differences that signal risk from one group to a next, are teeny tiny, a bit arbitrary, and not always directly linked to the casual pathway that translates genes to disease.
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If anything, it's another example of how wonderfully complex our genomes are, how useful human variation can be, and how the small differences between us, though tiny, still can matter when it comes to health.
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Whites are putting the most money into it, why shouldn't whites primarily benefit from it?
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I find this view to be deeply mean.
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You're just trying to communise science research, aren't you?
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It's not so surprising. But yet it is still a problem. I outline in the story.
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Wait is Vox publishing a graph showing Europeans to be a global minority?....Alt Right, Far Right, White Supremacist, Nazis!!!
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I actually suggested this back in college, and the professor told me making the distinction of drugs’ impact between races was inherently racist
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Well because drug impact doesn't really vary by race is varies by ancestry (at relevant loci)
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That's what race is. Populations that vary by ancestry.
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That is not what race is, race has an entirely different metaphysical basis than population. For one, populations are contextual and instrumental not natural descriptions of the world like race is intended to be.
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Do white parents have white babies? Do black parents have black babies?
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That is neither a relevant question nor one that has any real meaning. "White" is not really a biological population nor is it an independent evolutionary lineage
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That doesn't prove that white and black are populations or that they're independent lineages. Don't mistake outputs of PCA and Structure for real populations, they're not
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