Bias in genetic data
It has been shown that people of European ancestry are vastly over-represented in genetic data. Kessler2016challenges
Sirugo2019missing is a commentary on Cell arguing that we need more diversity in the data.
Buffalo gave us spicy wings and the ‘book of life.’ Here’s why that’s undermining personalized medicine - the reference genome is biased. Atlantic has a story on this. Sherman2018assembly revealed that a lot of letters are missing in the reference genome by examining ~1000 people with African ancestry.