The Articulation of Genomics, Mestizaje, and Indigenous Identities in Chile: A Case Study of the Social Implications of Genomic Research in Light of Current Research Practices

Front Genet. 2022 Mar 3:13:817318. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.817318. eCollection 2022.

Constanza P Silva^{1

2}, Constanza de la Fuente Castro³, Tomás González Zarzar^{4

5}, Maanasa Raghavan³, Ayelén Tonko-Huenucoy⁶, Felipe I Martínez^{7

8}, Nicolás Montalva^{9

10}

¹ Criminal Justice Research Center, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
² Comunidad Autónoma Diaguita Mapochogasta, Santiago, Chile.
³ Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States.
⁴ Department of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, College of Agricultural Sciences, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
⁵ The Huck Institutes of the Life Science, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, United States.
⁶ Comunidad Kawésqar, Puerto Edén, Chile.
⁷ School of Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pontificia Universidad Católica, Santiago, Chile.
⁸ Center for Intercultural and Indigenous Research (CIIR), Santiago, Chile.
⁹ Society and Health Research Center, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.
¹⁰ School of Public Health, Universidad Mayor, Santiago, Chile.

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Keywords: Chile; Indigenous; Latin America; ancestry; genomics; identity; mestizaje; research ethics.

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