{"id":50624,"date":"2016-12-14T02:51:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T02:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=50624"},"modified":"2016-12-14T14:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T14:22:40","slug":"pharmacogenomics-human-genetic-diversity-and-the-incorporation-and-rejection-of-colorrace-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=50624","title":{"rendered":"Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color\/race in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color\/race in Brazil<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

BioSocieties<\/a>
\nMarch 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1<\/a>
\npages 48\u201369
\nDOI: 10.1057\/biosoc.2014.21<\/a><\/p>\n

Ricardo Ventura Santos<\/strong><\/a>
\nEscola Nacional de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica\/ FIOCRUZ & Museu Nacional\/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Gl\u00e1ucia Oliveira da Silva<\/strong>
\nUniversidade Federal Fluminense, Niter\u00f3i, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

Sahra Gibbon<\/strong><\/a>, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
\nUniversity College, London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n

Public funding for research on the action of drugs in countries like the United States<\/a> requires that racial classification of research subjects should be considered when defining the composition of the samples as well as in data analysis, sometimes resulting in interpretations that Whites and Blacks differ in their pharmacogenetic<\/a> profiles. In Brazil<\/a>, pharmacogenomic<\/a> results have led to very different interpretations when compared with those obtained in the United States. This is explained as deriving from the genomic heterogeneity of the Brazilian population. This article argues that in the evolving field of pharmacogenomics research in Brazil there is simultaneously both an incorporation and rejection of the US informed race-genes paradigm. We suggest that this must be understood in relation to continuities with national and transnational history of genetic research in Brazil, a differently situated politics of Brazilian public health and the ongoing valorization of miscegenation<\/a> or race mixture by Brazilian geneticists as a resource for transnational genetic research. Our data derive from anthropological investigation conducted in INCA (Brazilian National Cancer Institute<\/a>), in Rio de Janeiro<\/a>, with a focus on the drug warfarin<\/a>. The criticism of Brazilian scientists regarding the uses of racial categorization includes a revision of mathematical algorithms for drug dosage widely used in clinical procedures around the world. Our analysis reveals how the incorporation of ideas of racial purity and admixture, as it relates to the efficacy of drugs, touches on issues related to the possibility of application of pharmaceutical technologies on a global scale.<\/p>\n

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Pharmacogenomics, human genetic diversity and the incorporation and rejection of color\/race in Brazil BioSocieties March 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1 pages 48\u201369 DOI: 10.1057\/biosoc.2014.21 Ricardo Ventura Santos Escola Nacional de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica\/ FIOCRUZ & Museu Nacional\/UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gl\u00e1ucia Oliveira da Silva Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niter\u00f3i, Brazil Sahra Gibbon, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,2039,8],"tags":[2472,25732,25731,8486,8484],"class_list":["post-50624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-biosocieties","tag-glaucia-oliveira-da-silva","tag-pharmacogenomics","tag-ricardo-ventura-santos","tag-sahra-gibbon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50624","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=50624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50629,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50624\/revisions\/50629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}