Le texte complet de l’article est accessible ici :
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1893020
Voici la conclusion de l’article :
"... A final complication arises when racial classifications are used as proxies for geographic ancestry. Although many concepts of race are correlated with geographic ancestry, the two are not interchangeable, and relying on racial classifications will reduce predictive power still further.
The fact that, given enough genetic data, individuals can be correctly assigned to their populations of origin is compatible with the observation that most human genetic variation is found within populations, not between them. It is also compatible with our finding that, even when the most distinct populations are considered and hundreds of loci are used, individuals are frequently more similar to members of other populations than to members of their own population. Thus, caution should be used when using geographic or genetic ancestry to make inferences about individual phenotypes."
Quant aux sources de financement de ce travail, on les trouve dans les remerciements :
"This work was supported by National Science Foundation grants BCS-0218338 (M.A.B.), BCS-0218370 (L.B.J.), and EPS-0346411 (M.A.B.) ; by National Institutes of Health grant GM-59290 (L.B.J. and M.A.B.) ; by the Louisiana Board of Regents Millennium Trust Health Excellence Fund HEF (2000-05)-05 (M.A.B.), (2000-05)-01 (M.A.B.), and (2001-06)-02 (M.A.B.) ; and by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health."
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