Ancestry, ethnicity, and race: explaining inequalities in cardiometabolic disease.

doi:10.1016/j.molmed.2024.04.002

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Ancestry, ethnicity, and race: explaining inequalities in cardiometabolic disease.

Trends in molecular medicine - 1 Jun 2024

Eastwood Sophie V, Hemani Gibran, Watkins Sarah H, Scally Aylwyn, Davey Smith George, Chaturvedi Nishi

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Population differences in cardiometabolic disease remain unexplained. Misleading assumptions over genetic explanations are partly due to terminology used to distinguish populations, specifically ancestry, race, and ethnicity. These terms differentially implicate environmental and biological causal pathways, which should inform their use. Genetic variation alone accounts for a limited fraction of population...

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Humans
Ethnicity
Cardiovascular Diseases
Racial Groups
Metabolic Diseases
Genetic Predisposition to Disease
Socioeconomic Factors
Healthcare Disparities

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PMID: 38677980
DOI: 10.1016/j.molmed.2024.04.002

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