{"id":58082,"date":"2019-05-15T21:20:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58082"},"modified":"2019-05-15T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T21:21:10","slug":"ashg-denounces-attempts-to-link-genetics-and-racial-supremacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58082","title":{"rendered":"ASHG Denounces Attempts to Link Genetics and Racial Supremacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajhg.2018.10.011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>ASHG Denounces Attempts to Link Genetics and Racial Supremacy<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/ajhg\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AJHG (American Journal of Human Genetics)<\/a><br \/>\nASHG Perspective<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/ajhg\/issue?pii=S0002-9297(17)X0012-8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Volume 103, Issue 5, P636<\/a><br \/>\n2018-10-19<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajhg.2018.10.011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1016\/j.ajhg.2018.10.011<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">American Society of Human Genetics<\/a> (ASHG) is alarmed to see a societal resurgence of groups rejecting the value of genetic diversity and using discredited or distorted genetic concepts to bolster bogus claims of white supremacy. ASHG denounces this misuse of genetics to feed racist ideologies. In public dialog, our research community should be clear about genetic knowledge related to ancestry and genomic diversity. To that end, ASHG affirms the following:&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire statement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cell.com\/action\/showPdf?pii=S0002-9297%2818%2930363-X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PDF<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.ajhg.2018.10.011\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HTML<\/a> format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) is alarmed to see a societal resurgence of groups rejecting the value of genetic diversity and using discredited or distorted genetic concepts to bolster bogus claims of white supremacy. ASHG denounces this misuse of genetics to feed racist ideologies. In public dialog, our research community should be clear about genetic knowledge related to ancestry and genomic diversity. To that end, ASHG affirms the following:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2039,8,26,22],"tags":[29784,4324,29781,29782,29783],"class_list":["post-58082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-statements","tag-ajhg","tag-american-journal-of-human-genetics","tag-american-society-of-human-genetics","tag-ashg","tag-ashg-perspective"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082","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=58082"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58084,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58082\/revisions\/58084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}