tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Minireview cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: The ethics of characterizing difference: guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics. | Open letter The ethics of characterizing difference guiding principles on using racial categories in human genetics Sandra Soo-Jin Lee1 Joanna Mountain 2 3 Barbara Koenig4 Russ Altman5 Melissa Brown6 Albert Camarillo 7 Luca Cavalli-Sforza3 Mildred Cho1 Jennifer Eberhardt8 Marcus Feldman9 Richard Ford10 Henry Greely10 Roy King11 Hazel Markus8 Debra Satz12 Matthew Snipp13 Claude Steele8 and Peter Underhill3 Addresses 1Center for Biomedical Ethics and Department of Pediatrics Stanford University Welch Road Palo Alto CA 94304 USA. 223andMe Inc. Bayshore Parkway Mountain View CA 94043 USA. 3Department of Genetics Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 USA. 4Program in Professionalism and Bioethics Mayo Clinic First St. SW Rochester MN 55905 USA. 5Departments of Bioengineering Genetics and Medicine 6Department of Anthropology 7Department of History 8Department of Psychology 9Department of Biological Sciences 10School of Law Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences Department of Philosophy 13Department of Sociology Stanford University Stanford CA 94305 USA. Correspondence Sandra Soo-Jin Lee. Email Published 15 July 2008 Genome Biology 2008 9 404 doi gb-2008-9-7-404 The electronic version of this article is the complete one and can be found online at http 2008 9 7 404 2008 BioMed Central Ltd Abstract 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. Since the completion of the Human Genome Project research focused on human genetic variation including differences among groups has intensified. This focus has rekindled debates about the connection between genetic DNA-level traits and human racial difference 1-5 . Scholars are divided on the question of whether racial categorization is an appropriate means of organizing potentially useful genetic data or a .