Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Research Studies.

The article discusses the need to create more diverse studies by including ethnic and racial minorities in white population-dominated biomedical research. Topics include inclusion policies in the 1993 Revitalization Act of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and underrepresentation of minorities in medical studies due to linguistic, time, financial constraints and grant-funding bias. Also cited are genetic studies, bioinformatics techniques and big data approach in precision medicine.