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Genotyping could lead to stereotyping
By UCSF School of Pharmacy Editorial Staff / Tue Aug 22, 2006
While tailoring medications to a group's genetic ancestry can be important, scientists warn that these generalizations might also be misleading. UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member and pharmacogenetics and asthma researcher Esteban Burchard, MD, comments at the Genomics, Race, and Health Disparities Conference held in Oakland, California on August 18 and 19, 2006. The conference was sponsored by Children's Hospital and Research Center Oakland; the University of California, Davis; and the Alta Bates Summit Ethnic Health Institute.
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