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Genomics for the world

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Medical genomics has focused almost entirely on those of European descent. Other ethnic groups must be studied to ensure that more people benefit, say Carlos D. Bustamante, Esteban González Burchard and Francisco M. De La Vega.

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  1. Carlos D. Bustamante is in the Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,

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  2. Francisco M. De La Vega is in the Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA.,

    Francisco M. De La Vega

  3. Esteban G. Burchard is at the University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143, USA.,

    Esteban G. Burchard

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C.D.B. is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Slim Initiative for Genomic Medicine and part of the International Working Group for the Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health. He is a funded investigator of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute's Exome Sequencing Project and of the National Human Genome Research Institute's 1,000 Genomes Project. C.D.B. and E.G.B. are unpaid consultants to 23andMe, a company in Mountain View, California, that does direct-to-consumer genetic testing. C.D.B. is also a consultant to Ancestry.com, a company in Provo, Utah, that provides direct-to-consumer products for family history tracking and genetic ancestry.

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Bustamante, C., De La Vega, F. & Burchard, E. Genomics for the world. Nature 475, 163–165 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/475163a

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