Tag: Esteban G. Burchard

  • Tales of African-American History Found in DNA The New York Times 2016-05-27 Carl Zimmer The history of African-Americans has been shaped in part by two great journeys. The first brought hundreds of thousands of Africans to the southern United States as slaves. The second, the Great Migration, began around 1910 and sent six million African-Americans…

  • The Racial Discrimination Embedded in Modern Medicine Newsweek 2015-10-20 Lindsey Konkel Minutes separated Are’Yana Hill from death as she struggled to breathe in the hallway of her San Francisco high school. The 18-year-old had lived with asthma attacks since before she could talk, and on that day, in April 2014, she could not speak. She…

  • Race and ancestry in biomedical research: exploring the challenges Genome Medicine 2009 Volume 1, Number 8 (2009-01-21) DOI: 10.1186/gm8 Timothy Caulfield Faculty of Law and School of Public Health Research, Health Law Institute University of Alberta Stephanie M Fullerton Department of Medical History and Ethics and Department of Genome Sciences University of Washington School of…

  • Comparing Genetic Ancestry and Self-Described Race in African Americans Born in the United States and in Africa Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 17, Issue 6 (June 2008) pages 1329-1338 DOI: 10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-07-2505 Rona Yaeger Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center Alexa Avila-Bront Department of Medicine College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University Kazeem Abdul Herbert…

  • Genetic Ancestry in Lung-Function Predictions New England Journal of Medicine 2010-07-07 DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa0907897 Rajesh Kumar, M.D. Max A. Seibold, Ph.D. Melinda C. Aldrich, Ph.D., M.P.H. L. Keoki Williams, M.D., M.P.H. Alex P. Reiner, M.D. Laura Colangelo, M.S. Joshua Galanter, M.D. Christopher Gignoux, M.S. Donglei Hu, Ph.D. Saunak Sen, Ph.D. Shweta Choudhry, Ph.D. Edward L. Peterson,…

  • The Importance of Race and Ethnic Background in Biomedical Research and Clinical Practice New England Journal of Medicine 2003-03-20 Volume 348, Number 12 pages 1170-1175 Esteban González Burchard, M.D. Elad Ziv, M.D. Natasha Coyle, Ph.D. Scarlett Lin Gomez, Ph.D. Hua Tang, Ph.D. Andrew J. Karter, Ph.D. Joanna L. Mountain, Ph.D. Eliseo J. Pérez-Stable, M.D. Dean…

  • Genetic screening may redefine medical treatments KGO-TV San Francisco, California 2010-07-07 Carolyn Johnson, Co-Anchor KGO-TV SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — New research out of UCSF [University of California, San Francisco] shows that tracking a patient’s genetic ancestry can improve the diagnosis of asthma and other lung diseases. The results could have broader implications for other diseases…

  • Genetic ancestry data improve diagnosis in asthma and lung disease University of California, San Fransisco News Release 2010-07-07 Kristen Bole Released Jointly by UCSF and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, and National Jewish Health Americans with lung disease may face a far greater level of lung damage than either they or…