{"id":36785,"date":"2014-07-01T01:13:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T01:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36785"},"modified":"2014-07-01T01:22:13","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T01:22:13","slug":"implications-of-genetic-diversity-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36785","title":{"rendered":"Implications of Genetic Diversity in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biopoliticaltimes.org\/article.php?id=7855\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Implications of Genetic Diversity in Mexico<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biopoliticaltimes.org\" target=\"_blank\">Biopolitical Times<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneticsandsociety.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Genetics and Society<\/a><br \/>\n2014-06-25<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pete Shanks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The category <em>Latino<\/em> is a valid cultural artifact, and often self-identified. But it&#8217;s not really a race in any modern sense of the term, and the genetic evidence surely shows that it is far too broad a grouping to be scientifically appropriate without serious qualification. Yet it is used, even in some current peer-reviewed papers.<\/p>\n<p>One that does <em>not<\/em> use the term is an article published in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Science<\/em><\/a> this month on the genetics of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mexico\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico<\/a>. The country&#8217;s population is large and ethnically, linguistically, geographically, economically and culturally diverse. It is also genetically complex, and this article by a large and distinguished team of scientists provides new details. It also <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1126\/science.1251688\" target=\"_blank\">suggests<\/a> some important implications for genomic research and likely for personalized medicine in general:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The genetics of Mexico recapitulates Native American substructure and affects biomedical traits<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The study included 511 Native Mexican individuals from 20 indigenous groups, and 500 <em>mestizo<\/em> (mixed-race) individuals from ten states; nearly a million <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Single-nucleotide_polymorphism\" target=\"_blank\">SNPs<\/a> were analyzed for each. The variation was striking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biopoliticaltimes.org\/article.php?id=7855\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implications of Genetic Diversity in Mexico Biopolitical Times Center for Genetics and Society 2014-06-25 Pete Shanks The category Latino is a valid cultural artifact, and often self-identified. But it&#8217;s not really a race in any modern sense of the term, and the genetic evidence surely shows that it is far too broad a grouping to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,2039,8,103],"tags":[12300,12323,17562],"class_list":["post-36785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-mexico","tag-biopolitical-times","tag-center-for-genetics-and-society","tag-pete-shanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36785","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=36785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}