The theory that race is merely a social construct has been challenged by the findings of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine, published in the American Journal of Human Genetics as "Genetic Structure, Self-Identified Race/Ethnicity, and Confounding in Case-Control Association Studies". One of the researchers, Neil Risch, noted: "we looked at the correlation between genetic structure [based on microsatellite markers] versus self-description, we found 99.9% concordance between the two. We actually had a higher discordance rate between self-reported sex and markers on the X chromosome! So you could argue that sex is also a problematic category. And there are differences between sex and gender; self-identification may not be correlated with biology perfectly. And there is sexism."
The theory that race is merely a social construct has been challenged by the findings of researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine , published in the American Journal of Human Genetics as " Genetic Structure , Self - Identified Race / Ethnicity , and Confounding in Case - Control Association Studies " . One of the researchers , Neil Risch , noted : " we looked at the correlation between genetic structure [ based on microsatellite markers ] versus self - description , we found 99.9 % concordance between the two . We actually had a higher discordance rate between self - reported sex and markers on the X chromosome ! So you could argue that sex is also a problematic category . And there are differences between sex and gender ; self - identification may not be correlated with biology perfectly . And there is sexism . "
Where was the challenge to the theory of racing being a social construct published?
Where was the challenge to the theory of racing being a social construct published ?
the American Journal of Human Genetics
the American Journal of Human Genetics