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The (mis-)alignment of genetic association studies to global health needs

2026-02-11 public and global health Title + abstract only
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Health research priorities are generally not aligned with global disease burden. Although genome-wide association studies (GWAS) are correcting a historical bias by including samples from different demographic groups, this does not necessarily translate to improved understanding of the most important causes of disease globally. We demonstrate that while in countries with high socioeconomic development index (SDI) there is some alignment between the traits being analysed in GWAS and those that co...

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