Uncovering Ancestral Bias in CRISPR Research
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Blog Post
...research uses ancestry groups rather than self-reported race, it highlights the myriad issues researchers...designed a tool that could analyze CRISPR sgRNAs and report the likelihood of any given sgRNA having an ancestral...default” genome looks like, which led to the incorporation of ancestral bias into genome-wide screens, ...complicating the issue is the long and ugly history of reporting false essentialist links between biology and ancestry...design of the experiment or dataset itself.
It is important for scientists to not only be aware of the potential...