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Enhancing diversity to reduce health information disparities and build an evidence base for genomic medicine.

L. Hindorff,V. Bonham,L. Ohno-Machado

Published 2018 in Personalized Medicine

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Advances in genomic medicine are arising from efforts to build a national learning healthcare system (LHS) and large-scale precision medicine studies. However, the underlying evidence base lacks sufficient data from populations historically underrepresented in biomedical research. Although the literature on health and healthcare disparities is extensive, disparities in the availability and quality of health information about diverse and underrepresented populations are less well characterized. This Perspective describes scientific and ethical benefits to incorporating health information from diverse and underrepresented populations in the LHS, resulting in a more robust and generalizable LHS. Near-term recommendations for incorporating diversity into the evidence base for genomic medicine are proposed, even as the groundwork for national and international efforts is underway.

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