Much of the promise of future improvements in medical researchis premised on better understanding of genetics and how certaingenes lead to greater disease risks or react to certaintreatments.

So it’s big news when a study in the New England Journal ofMedicine found that African Americans were more likely to bediagnosed as at risk for a heart condition because of a flawedunderstanding of genetic traits.

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