Guidance on use of race, ethnicity, and geographic origin as proxies for genetic ancestry groups in biomedical publications

Affiliations

• ¹ Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, Augusta, ME, USA; JAMA, Chicago, IL, USA. Electronic address: wfeero@mainegeneral.org.
• ² University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA; Genetics in Medicine, New York, New York, USA.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA; American Journal of Medical Genetics, Hoboken, NJ, USA.
• ⁴ Nature Genetics, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ⁵ Departments of Pediatrics and Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ⁶ Departments of Psychiatry and Medical Genetics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Journal of Genetic Counseling, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
• ⁷ Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA; American Journal of Human Genetics, Cambridge, MA, USA.
• ⁸ JAMA and the JAMA Network, Chicago, IL, USA.