A Racial Difference That Isn’t Racial February 29, 2008
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A trawl through the genes of white people in Utah and Yoruba people in Nigeria shows a significant number of differences that can explain why some groups respond differently to drugs than others.
The findings also suggest that genes underlie some susceptibility to diseases in a general population, the researchers report in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
What the study does not show, the researchers stress, is that any of these differences are necessarily racial. But they are a first step toward a day when medical care may be tailored not only for individuals, but for entire groups.
Then what else could distinguish whites in Utah an Yoruba in Nigeria such that they respond differently to drugs? Climate?
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