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To the Editor: The use of data on self-reported race in health research has been highly debated.^1,2 For example, Burchard et al. recently argued that important information on disease susceptibility may be derived from the use of data on self-reported race,¹ whereas Cooper et al.² cited Wilson et al.,³ who argued that ethnic labels "are inaccurate representations of the inferred genetic clusters." Cooper et al., however, ignored later work⁴ that identified limitations in the analyses of Wilson et al. — specifically, inappropriate classification of groups, the use of a suboptimal model for cluster identification, and reliance on only 39 microsatellite . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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