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Conference Report: Representing Ethnic Diversity for Precision Medicine

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Justin M. Zook, Luke Hickey, Benedict Paten, Robert Sebra, Valerie Schneider

Abstract

There is a pressing need to better represent ethnic diversity with genomic resources — and to do so in a way that maximizes utility for people working with the Genome Reference Consortium’s human reference genome. That was the theme of a panel discussion among the authors at the Precision Medicine Leaders Summit, held in San Diego in August 2017. The session, entitled “Minority Report: Ethnic Diversity and the Real Promise for Precision Medicine,” included discussion about better representing the human genome; addressing population bias in existing databases; evolving technology; data sharing; and achieving precision medicine for all individuals. Here, we summarize the key discussion points from the panel.
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Journal of Precision Medicine
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Human genome sequencing, reference genome, genomics, precision medicine
Bioscience, Genomics, Clinical diagnostics, Precision medicine and Reference materials

Citation

Zook, J. , Hickey, L. , Paten, B. , Sebra, R. and Schneider, V. (2018), Conference Report: Representing Ethnic Diversity for Precision Medicine, Journal of Precision Medicine, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=926409 (Accessed October 12, 2025)

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Created August 23, 2018
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