S4E06: It's Personal: Inclusive Research and Precision Medicine
Two Scientists Walk Into a Bar
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Is There a Difference Between Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes?
Medicine is built around categorizing diseases and so on. We collapse it down to these crude categories of whites and black or the different census categories that are used in the US, he says. "It can be useful to have those broad categories but they also reinforce the notion both in terms of disease subtypes and ancestry" He adds: 'There's a continuum between folks of European descent and African descent'
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