Race and DNA (again)

[Jayelles]

More on the same study:-

http://isteve.blogspot.com/2005/02/n...h-on-race.html

Not clear, but it seems that Risch has found that race can be determined via biological predisposition to certain health factors (nothing new there).

i.e. find the DNA information for sickle-cell anaemia and that person is almost certainly black

He states that his samples could be split into 4 racial categories and that only one of these categories could be further divided (East Asian had separate subcategories for Chinese and Japanese).

I am looking for peer review on this study as that seems to be important for scientific credibility.

[Jayelles]

Actually, in this article, Rische is agreeing with the Genome scientists:-

Neil Risch of Stanford University, a leader in the field of genetics, contends that race is helpful for understanding ethnic differences in disease and responses to disease.

When they said:-

So, for example, people whose ancestors came from Asia may have a higher or lower frequency of a genetic variant associated with their responsiveness to a particular drug, or with their susceptibility to a certain disease, such as diabetes, heart disease, or stroke.