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Race/ethnicity in biomedical research and clinical practice.
SADJ : journal of the South African Dental Association = tydskrif van die Suid-Afrikaanse Tandheelkundige Vereniging - 1 Jul 2014
Feller L, Ballyram R, Meyerov R, Lemmer J, Ayo-Yusuf O A
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There is ongoing debate as to whether persons of different racial/ethnic groups are biologically significantly different, and, if such differences exist, whether they are relevant in relation to disease susceptibility and to treatment outcomes. There is also debate about the benefits of using race/ethnicity as a factor in clinical decision making, and as a variable in biomedical or public health research, because...
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