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ASHG 2008: Health, ancestry and Montel Williams

Ancestry testing can be a sensitive subject as evident in a packed morning session discussing some of the social and education aspects of ancestry and genealogical testing. While genetics has a long and sordid past with the term race, it remains a fact (possibly as a vestige of how populations have been studied) that ethnic groups show distinct genetic signatures associate with commonly delineated ethnic groups, and there could be health benefits to using this information. Esteban Gonzalez Burchard at the University of California San Francisco studies African American and Latin American groups. He talked of one project on Multiple Sclerosis that he had been collaborating with. 

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