Genes, Medicine, and the New Race Debate

May 14, 2003 | Source: Technology Review

The International HapMap Project will use highly automated genomics tools to parse out the common “haplotype” patterns in DNA among a number of the world’s population groups.

The reseasrch promises to offer new tools for medicine (forewarning at-risk individuals and predicting adverse drug reactions, for example), but raises the possibility of perpetuating ethnic stereotypes.