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EVALUATING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN GENETIC ANCESTRY AND THE CLINICAL PHENOME.
Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing. Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing - 1 Jan 2024
Piekos Jacqueline A, Kim Jeewoo, Keaton Jacob M, Hellwege Jacklyn N, Edwards Todd L, Velez Edwards Digna R
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There is a desire in research to move away from the concept of race as a clinical factor because it is a societal construct used as an imprecise proxy for geographic ancestry. In this study, we leverage the biobank from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, BioVU, to investigate relationships between genetic ancestry proportion and the clinical phenome. For all samples in BioVU, we calculated six ancestry...
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