{"id":37473,"date":"2011-02-09T10:55:18","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T18:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=9798"},"modified":"2011-02-14T04:18:34","modified_gmt":"2011-02-14T12:18:34","slug":"why-race-will-matter-after-we-all-get-our-full-sequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/09\/why-race-will-matter-after-we-all-get-our-full-sequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Why race will matter after we all get our full sequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/nastruc1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/02\/nastruc1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"191\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9799\" \/><\/a>In my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/02\/health-care-costs-and-ancestry\/\">post<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/02\/health-care-costs-and-ancestry\/\">&#8220;Health care costs and ancestry&#8221;<\/a>, a commenter <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2011\/02\/health-care-costs-and-ancestry\/#comment-57573\">says<\/a>:<br \/>\n<i>\u201cRace\u201d is a concept that should have died with disco. <b>I imagine it will soon be feasible for every patient to have their genome analysis included in their medical file and the various risk and other pertinent factors explicated.<\/b><\/i><\/p>\n<p>The chart to the left shows how race <i>is<\/i> a social construct. It&#8217;s a bar plot which partitions ancestry, and as you can see, the Asian children are a mix of European and Asian. How does that happen? <b>Because in 1980 the US Census included people of South Asian origin as &#8220;Asian Americans.&#8221;<\/b> In contrast, those of Middle Eastern origin remain &#8220;non-Hispanic white&#8221; (this not totally crazy, think Ralph Nader or Marlo Thomas). But it means that an ethnic Baloch from Pakistan is &#8220;Asian,&#8221; and an ethnic Baloch from Iran is a &#8220;non-Hispanic white.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nOnly a government bureaucrat would be happy with this situation. Obvious more fine-grained genomic analyses are necessary at least to force us to acknowledge the stupidity of these bureaucratic quirks. I am chagrined to realize that I&#8217;ve put &#8220;Asian&#8221; as my race quite often on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my post &#8220;Health care costs and ancestry&#8221;, a commenter says:<br \/>\n\u201cRace\u201d is a concept that should have died with disco. I imagine it will soon be feasible for every patient to have their genome analysis included in their medical file and t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,82,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-race"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37473"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37671,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37473\/revisions\/37671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}