CBSSM Seminar: Barbara Koenig, PhD

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Thu, October 23, 2014, 3:00pm to 4:00pm
Location: 
NCRC 16-266C

Barbara Koenig, PhD
Professor of Medical Anthropology & Bioethics Dept. of Social & Behavioral Sciences
Institute for Health & Aging, UCSF

“Revisiting the “Race” Issue in Genomics”

Summary: Throughout the post-genomic era, efforts to categorize human populations according to geographical ancestry have been contentious. How does genetic variation map on to social categories of difference? How can researchers seeking to understand health disparities—or to interrogate diseases associated with particular genetic variants—pay attention simultaneously to race as social identity, and biological characteristic?