question for genetics folks. how were the SNPs that current microarrays use chosen? is there a chance that existing chips won't work as well for genotyping non-euro populations due to bias in how these SNPs were selected?
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uh oh does the It Worked Great On These Undergrads Effect rear its ugly head once more
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it's definitely already a problem for some things in genetics. the biggest datasets (like UKBB) are pretty strongly european, so the predictors we have from them don't work very well on non-euro populations. decent article w/ inflammatory headline herehttps://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/10/22/17983568/dna-tests-precision-medicine-genetics-gwas-diversity-all-of-us …
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dang it, are the white people at it again junior, get me my switch
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i was agreeing to that! i use a dizzying array of tones, i know
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