Chunk #3 — DATA GATHERING

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Genomics is failing on diversity.

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During the past seven years, the proportion of samples used in catalogued GWAS from participants who are not of European descent has increased fivefold (see ‘Persistent bias’). Yet nearly 78% of this growth is due to an increase in the number of samples from Japan, China, Korea, India and other populations from east Asia, south Asia and southeast Asia.