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The ethics of characterizing difference: Guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics

Genome Biology (2008) 9(7)
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-404
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We are a multidisciplinary group of Stanford faculty who propose ten principles to guide the use of racial and ethnic categories when characterizing group differences in research into human genetic variation. © 2008 BioMed Central Ltd.

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Lee, S. S. J., Mountain, J., Koenig, B., Altman, R., Brown, M., Camarillo, A., … Underhill, P. (2008). The ethics of characterizing difference: Guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics. Genome Biology, 9(7). https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2008-9-7-404

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