For current databases, ancestry information can be dramatically expanded using recently developed tools to predict ancestry information from DNAm data (https://t.co/YSuE6Ojd7d) 28/
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@DeathNate4 @tgt75 @RhiannonDauster You don’t need 100% discrete categories, only broad associations between race (social construct) and populations (genetic clusters). You can predict self ID race from DNA reliably. https://t.co/eDhP4xUO0q
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@lizworthey @AdamWende @MarkEPepin @CardioMyocyteHa @LukeSkyrunner @SayanBakshi @berthahidalgo @DrVickersUAB "Because race is a social construct, and thus a poor proxy of human physiology," Just no. African ancestry can be inferred from placental DNA met
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