Bio-IT World April 19, 2022
Genomic studies can benefit from leveraging diverse ancestries to make new discoveries about health and disease, write the authors of a new paper published in Human Genetics and Genomics Advances (DOI: 10.1016/j.xhgg.2022.100099). They have launched a consortium focused on the genetics of Hispanic and Latin American populations.
Lindsay Fernández-Rhodes, assistant professor of biobehavioral health at Penn State, and Mariaelisa Graff, associate professor of epidemiology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, jointly led the work, which showed that increasing the diversity of genomic samples can improve researchers’ ability to identify important genetic insights into growth, development, and body fat distribution.
Hispanic/Latino populations are extremely diverse, Fernández-Rhodes explains. “Culturally, linguistically, geographically—especially in the United States where they represent a...
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