'Ten Commandments' of race and genetics issued


	'Ten Commandments' of race and genetics issued
tabsey
7-18-2008 9:33 AM
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commandments, are, orders?
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the group composition wasn't clipped. Details on each point at the source.
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a19b0365-47e2-46a2-88f5-d4fef017aee7/15FDD615-780C-4E7F-86BD-1ED6A3AF4959/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345" href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345" style="font-size: 11px;">www.newscientist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><P>Even with <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19926631.500-me-and-my-genome.html">the human genome in hand</A>, geneticists are split about how to deal with issues of race, genetics and medicine.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><P>Now the group has released a set of 10 guiding principles for the scientific community, published as an open letter in this week's <A target="ns" href="http://genomebiology.com/2008/9/7/404"><I>Genome Biology</I></A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><P><B>1.</B> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19726492.700-editorial-time-to-talk-about-race.html"><B>All races are created equal</B></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><B>2. An Argentinian and an Australian are more likely to have differences in their DNA than two Argentinians</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><B>3. A person's history isn't written only in his or her genes</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><P><B>4: Members of the same race may have different underlying genetics</B></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><P><B>5.</B> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/opinion/mg19726402.000-commentary-revisiting-nature-versus-nurture.html"><B>Both nature and nurture play important parts in our behaviors and abilities</B></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><B>6. Researchers should be careful about using racial groups when designing experiments</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><B>7. Medicine should focus on the individual, not the race</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><B>8. The study of genetics requires cooperation between experts in many different fields</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><B>9. Oversimplified science feeds popular misconceptions</B></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn14345-ten-commandments-of-race-and-genetics-issued.html?DCMP=ILC-hmts&nsref=news7_head_dn14345"><P><B>10.</B> <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/channel/being-human/mg19325952.000-are-we-born-prejudiced.html"><B>Genetics 101 should include a history of racism</B></A></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/15FDD615-780C-4E7F-86BD-1ED6A3AF4959/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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