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Ep99: Keolu Fox on Genome Sequencing of Indigenous Populations

The Long Run with Luke Timmerman

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Predictive and Preventive Medicine

Why is it important that we not gather all this data from 90 % of white people, as we collect all this genetic information? That's a great question. I think it comes down to the way that we preate systematic bias. If you train that agarithm with specific data sets that don't include variation that comes from, let's say, the native land community, then you're not going to be able to predict adverse effects for the depoyment of drugs.

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