{"id":46010,"date":"2016-03-13T16:59:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46010"},"modified":"2016-03-13T16:59:21","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T16:59:21","slug":"should-biologists-stop-grouping-us-by-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46010","title":{"rendered":"Should biologists stop grouping us by race?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/02\/04\/should-geneticists-move-beyond-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Should biologists stop grouping us by race?<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\" target=\"_blank\">STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine<\/a><br \/>\n2016-02-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sxbegle\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Begley<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45537\" target=\"_blank\">a provocative essay<\/a> in <em>Science<\/em> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe thought that after the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Human_Genome_Project\" target=\"_blank\">Human Genome Project<\/a>, with [its leaders] saying it\u2019s time to move beyond race as a biological marker, we would have done that,\u201d said <a href=\"http:\/\/drexel.edu\/dornsife\/academics\/faculty\/Michael%20Yudell\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Yudell<\/a>, a professor in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University and coauthor of the <em>Science<\/em> paper calling on journals and researchers to stop using race as a category in genetics studies. \u201cYet here we are, and there is evidence things have actually gotten worse in the genomic age.\u201d&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2016\/02\/04\/should-geneticists-move-beyond-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should biologists stop grouping us by race? STAT: Reporting from the frontiers of health and medicine 2016-02-04 Sharon Begley More than a decade after leading geneticists argued that race is not a true biological category, many studies continue to use it, harming scientific understanding and possibly patients, researchers argued in a provocative essay in Science [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,8],"tags":[13561,23206,23205],"class_list":["post-46010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-sharon-begley","tag-stat","tag-stat-reporting-from-the-frontiers-of-health-and-medicine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46010","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=46010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46011,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46010\/revisions\/46011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}