Disease Prediction Scores Based on DNA Have a Racial Bias, Study Finds | Box of delight | Scoop.it
From motherboard.vice.com - March 31, 2019 7:00 AM
Scores for predicting disease risk based on genetics are on average almost five times less accurate for people of African ancestry, two times less accurate for East Asians, and 1.6 times less accurate for Hispanic or Latino Americans, compared to people of European descent, a paper published Friday in Nature Genetics has found.