The Ancestry and Diversity Working Group (ADWG) of the Clinical Genome Resource (ClinGen) was founded in 2017, with the goal of providing guidance about how population descriptors such as race, ethnicity, and ancestry (REA) should (or should not) be used in clinical genetics.
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