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Structural racism in precision medicine: leaving no one behind.

Lester Darryl GenevièveAndrea MartaniDavid ShawBernice Simone ElgerTenzin Wangmo
Published in: BMC medical ethics (2020)
Structural racism has been entrenched in our societies for centuries and it would be naïve to believe that its impacts will not spill over in the era of PM. PM initiatives need to pay special attention to the discriminatory and harmful impacts that structural racism could have on minority groups involved in their respective projects. It is only by acknowledging and discussing the existence of implicit racial biases and trust issues in healthcare and research domains that proper interventions to remedy them can be implemented.
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