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Fine-scale genetic ancestry as a potential new tool for precision medicine
NP Tatonetti et al, Nature Medicine, June 18, 2021

Race and ethnicity (R/E) and genetic ancestry have long been conflated in biomedical research. The use of self-reported R/E as a proxy for genetic ancestry holds back precision medicine by confounding biological risks with those stemming from the environment, economic status, other socioeconomic factors and racism. The advent of large institutional biobanks connected to both genomic databases and electronic health records therefore represents an opportunity for disentangling the social and cultural from the ancestral.

Deaths involving COVID-19 by disability status: a retrospective analysis of 29 million adults during the first two waves of the Coronavirus pandemic in England
ML Bosworth et al, MEDRXIV, June 13, 2021

This is a cohort study of >29 million adults using data from the Office for National Statistics Public Health Data Asset. Age-adjusted analyses showed that, compared to non-disabled people, mortality involving COVID-19 was higher among both more-disabled people (HR=3.05, 95% CI: 2.98 to 3.11 in males; 3.48, 3.41 to 3.56 in females) and less-disabled people (HR=1.88, 95% CI: 1.84 to 1.92 in males; 2.03, 1.98 to 2.08 in females).

Expanding Discovery in Cardiovascular Genome-Wide Association Studies
P Natarajan et al, JAMA Cardiology, June 9, 2021

Genome-wide association studies of individuals of African ancestry typically living in the US are uncommon, yet they have yielded high-impact observations, including the discovery that PCSK9 loss-of-function mutations protect against coronary artery disease. Genome-wide association studies of individuals living in Africa are even rarer, representing approximately 0.4% of GWAS participants.

To benefit diverse groups, AI must address bias, researchers say
J Lee, Stanford Scope Blog, June 8, 2021

Artificial intelligence has the potential to transform health and medicine, from improving access to mental health care to tagging molecular details in tumor images. AI algorithms can spot patterns in massive troves of data -- even better than humans, in some cases. These technologies, however, are susceptible to bias. Biases in sex, gender and race within datasets can produce models that are poor predictors for certain groups, and the use of such biased models could exacerbate existing structural health disparities.


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