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Re:How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’ by pjc50 on Saturday March 24, 2018 @10:19AM (#16666701)
There are some situations where both illnesses and treatments behave differently depending on race-linked genetics; sickle-cell aenemia vs malaria is the famous one, but there's a long tail of medicines that are slightly less effective in nonwhite people because of who happened to be in the clinical trials.
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Re:How Genetics Is Changing Our Understanding of ‘Race’ by pavlov on Saturday March 24, 2018 @11:16AM (#16666997)
How strong is the link to race? There is a great number of diseases and conditions affected by genes that have no correlation with skin pigment.

Swedes and Finns have quite different profiles of hereditary diseases. Are Finns a different race based on that?

In the 1930s, Finnish scientists spent a lot of time “proving” to their German counterparts that Finns are an Aryan group rather than part of the Mongolic race. That seems completely absurd today. Hopefully in 80 years we’ll be able to say the same about present-day race obsessions.

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