BIO 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Population Genetics, National Institutes Of Health
14 Apr 2020
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Is it time to stop using race in medical research? angus chen. In this npr interview, a population geneticist and a sociologist discuss the problem in research of assuming that race is genetically determined. They say that difficulties arise because science has shown that race is not an innate, genetically defined feature of populations; it is instead defined culturally, legally, and socially. If so, how: some scientists have taken the concept of race too far in believing that race is important in genetic research. It can be important in examining certain diseases that are more prevalent in a certain population, but it can be difficult to define what race truly is. Scientist aren"t grouping people according to so-called races based purely on genetic data (vaughn, 327) because race is more than something that can just be genetically determined. Race is based on cultural, legal, social, and political determinations, and those grouping have changed over time (vaughn, 327).
