Perspective discusses the importance diversity in research to help further precision medicine

The scientific and ethical benefits of incorporating health information from diverse and underrepresented populations in genomic medicine are described in aPerspective by co-authors Dr. Lucia A. Hindorff and Mr. Vence L. Bonham, NIH's National Human Genome Research Institute, and Dr. Lucila Ohno-Machado, University of California, San Diego. Their recommendations for incorporating diversity into the evidence base for genomic medicine appeared in the Sept. 13, 2018 issue ofFuture Medicine.Read the Q&A with Dr. Ohno-Machado.
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