About this episode

This episode discusses the misconceptions linking race to genetics and disease in medicine.

We now know that humans are more than 99.9% genetically alike. So why does medicine still link certain diseases to race? And what do genetics actually tell us about race, ancestry, and disease? A full transcript of this episode is available at https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2601980.

Topics covered

• race
• genetics
• medicine
• disease
• ancestry

Keywords

• race
• genetics
• disease
• ancestry
• medicine
• human genetics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: NEJM Group

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