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Categorization of humans in biomedical research: genes, race and disease

Neil Risch*, Esteban Burchard, Elad Ziv and Hua Tang

Genome Biology 2002, 3:comment2007-comment2007.12 doi:10.1186/gb-2002-3-7-comment2007

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Genetic variants associated with fasting blood lipids in the U.S. population: Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

Man-huei Chang, Ajay Yesupriya, Renée M Ned, Patricia W Mueller, Nicole F Dowling BMC Medical Genetics 2010, 11:62 (20 April 2010)

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Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges

Timothy Caulfield, Stephanie M Fullerton, Sarah E Ali-Khan, Laura Arbour, Esteban G Burchard, Richard S Cooper, Billie-Jo Hardy, Simrat Harry, Robyn Hyde-Lay, Jonathan Kahn, Rick Kittles, Barbara A Koenig, Sandra SJ Lee, Michael Malinowski, Vardit Ravitsky, Pamela Sankar, Stephen W Scherer, Béatrice Séguin, Darren Shickle, Guilherme Suarez-Kurtz, Abdallah S Daar Genome Med 2009, 1:8 (21 January 2009)

An interdisciplinary workshop explores the controversies around the use of race in biomedical research and highlights challenges for an accurate representation of race not only in clinical trials but also by the lay press.

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A population-based study of race-specific risk for placental abruption

Tammy T Shen, Emily A DeFranco, David M Stamilio, Jen Chang, Louis J Muglia BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth 2008, 8:43 (12 September 2008)

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Patterns of population differentiation of candidate genes for cardiovascular disease

Iftikhar J Kullo, Keyue Ding BMC Genetics 2007, 8:48 (12 July 2007)

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Genetic polymorphisms in monoamine neurotransmitter systems show only weak association with acute post-surgical pain in humans

Hyungsuk Kim, Hyewon Lee, Janet Rowan, Jaime Brahim, Raymond A Dionne Molecular Pain 2006, 2:24 (18 July 2006)