In Psychiatric Genetics, a Push to Think Globally, Act Locally
March 02, 2018
March 02, 2018
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts, March 2 -- The Broad Institute issued the following news release:
Imagine you viewed the world's diversity solely through the lens of genetic and genomic data. Looking at the gnomAD browser, for instance, you would think that more than 45 percent of humanity was from Europe or had European ancestors. Data collected by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium would leave you thinking all of us are either European (96 percent) or East Asian (four percent).
Imagine you viewed the world's diversity solely through the lens of genetic and genomic data. Looking at the gnomAD browser, for instance, you would think that more than 45 percent of humanity was from Europe or had European ancestors. Data collected by the Psychiatric Genomics Consortium would leave you thinking all of us are either European (96 percent) or East Asian (four percent).