{"id":25779,"date":"2012-10-05T02:59:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T02:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=25779"},"modified":"2012-10-05T03:02:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:02:33","slug":"racial-labels-have-limited-use-in-personalizing-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=25779","title":{"rendered":"Racial Labels Have Limited Use In Personalizing Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racial Labels Have Limited Use In Personalizing Medicine<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Shots: NPR’s Health Blog<\/a>
\n2011-05-09<\/p>\n

Eliza Barclay<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

For all the fanfare around personalized medicine, the idea has been fairly slow to take off.<\/p>\n

Boosters have said if doctors had a patient’s DNA information it would be revolutionary: They could look for genetic risk of certain diseases or mutations that determine whether certain drugs are likely to work or not.<\/p>\n

The cost of DNA sequencing keeps falling, yet genetic sequencing for medical use isn’t commonplace. In the meantime, doctors can, in theory, consider a patient’s race in anticipating health conditions that could pose a higher risk.
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\nBut a study<\/a> published recently in PLoS One<\/em> suggests that using race as a stand in for truly personalized genetic information may not work<\/strong>, especially in the most diverse cities (like New York and Los Angeles) that attract immigrants from around the world.<\/p>\n

There’s a lot of genetic variability among races. And the genetic risk profiles for many people with mixed ancestry don’t fit neatly into any category…<\/strong><\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Racial Labels Have Limited Use In Personalizing Medicine Shots: NPR’s Health Blog 2011-05-09 Eliza Barclay For all the fanfare around personalized medicine, the idea has been fairly slow to take off. Boosters have said if doctors had a patient’s DNA information it would be revolutionary: They could look for genetic risk of certain diseases or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8,20],"tags":[12315,2309,12316,12314],"class_list":["post-25779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-eliza-barclay","tag-national-public-radio","tag-nrp","tag-shots-nprs-health-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}