The publications and the debate that has followed, which is not new to biomedical research, bring to light the confusion and potential harmful effects of using 'race' as a variable in medical ...

2007). However, ethnicity also connotes shared cultural, linguistic, behavioral, or religious characteristics. Thus, ethnicity and race are tied to both our genetics and our environment.

Picture a kid who is born with two working copies of what’s known as the sprinter’s gene, ACTN3. By elementary school she might be winning every game of tag, every race, and be chosen first ...

This sparked migrations across Europe and dramatically reshaped the continent's gene pool. For a long time ... past and ...

This introduced the concept of genes, opening the field of genetics ... with names like the Race Betterment Foundation. The war had given many Americans a greater fear of foreigners, and ...