PHRI Investigators Marie Pigeyre and Matt Lanktree co-hosted the OMICS and Epidemiology conference last week, where presenters explored the challenges and best practices for addressing race, ethnicity and ancestry in health research – particularly in the context of ‘OMICS studies.
PHRI Senior Scientist Sonia Anand, who leads the Population Genomics Program at McMaster, and Ron Do, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, NYC, gave compelling presentations of some of the complexity facing health research as we broaden both our cultural awareness around population health and our technologies in understanding epidemiology at the level of genes.
These Tweets best summarize the key points. (You do not need a Twitter account to click through and read them.)
#PHRI Investigator @MariePigeyre introduces speaker @DrSoniaAnand1 @PGPMac @MacDeptMed @PHRIresearch @HamHealthSci
who does #ethnicity related #populationhealth research as well as #Genomics
“There are limitations in using the term #race in #healthresearch” #omics22 #omics2022 pic.twitter.com/I5KeB1iF40— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute ???????? (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2022
#Race #Ethnicity #Ancestry@DrSoniaAnand1 outlines us census categories pic.twitter.com/EG1ftH8LGs
— Matt Lanktree | #NephroGenetics (@MattLanktree) June 16, 2022
“Avoid applying #genetically inferred #ancestry in place of #ethnicity or #race classification variable ina large database when non-#genetic questions are being asked” @DrSoniaAnand1 #genetics #genomics #omics22 pic.twitter.com/1YVAS5tICO
— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute ???????? (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2022
#GWAS #genome pic.twitter.com/fzut7K54q4
— PHRI | Population Health Research Institute ???????? (@PHRIresearch) June 16, 2022
