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; JAMA, Chicago, IL. Electronic address: wfeero@mainegeneral.org.
• ² University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI; Genetics in Medicine, New York, NY.
• ³ Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH; American Journal of Medical Genetics, Hoboken, NJ.
• ⁴ Nature Genetics, San Francisco, CA.
• ⁵ Departments of Pediatrics and Genome Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Human Genetics and Genomics Advances, Cambridge, MA.
• 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; American Journal of Human Genetics, Cambridge, MA.
• ⁸ JAMA and the JAMA Network, Chicago, IL.