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Code of Many Colors

Can researchers see race in the genome?

By Christen Brownlee

- More than 2 years ago

The first in a two-part series on race, biology, and medicine. Part II: “The Race to Prescribe,” is available at The Race to Prescribe.

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RACING IN CIRCLES. Research has shown that the range of DNA variety in populations, represented here by circles of various colors, overlaps by about 85 percent.