The NIH epidemiologist has worked to ensure genetic health and population genetics studies contain data from African—not just European—populations.

The paper’s authors say bias may nevertheless be present in other steps of the granting process.

Rather, DNA sequencing can help us parse our ancestry, a subtle but important distinction.

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Researchers identified genes related to melanin levels in African populations.

Biomedical engineer Kyle Quinn fends off a frenzied Internet mob after being wrongly identified as a Charlottesville protester.

Researchers attempt to estimate how much of the human genome’s methylation patterns can be attributed to genetic ancestry.

The results of two studies suggest slightly different biases in the review of National Institutes of Health R01 grant applications from minority and/or women researchers.