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>many of these genetic differences already are known to have a direct impact on our risk for certain diseases, such as the BRCA gene in breast cancer, or our ability to metabolize medications. But before we can develop more precise therapies or prescribe them to the right patients, we need far more knowledge of what those variants are across diverse populations, and how they affect health.

>“This is driving the ball down the field toward precision medicine,” Burchard said. “We can’t just clump everyone together and call them European Americans or Mexican Americans. There’s been a lot of resistance to studying racially mixed populations, because they’ve been considered too complex. We think that offers a real scientific advantage.”

not media value but interesting read on geneticsemailid/5317