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When Your AI Doctor Misreads Your Genetic Ancestry
Episode 75 of AI Ethics with Fexingo zeroes in on a quietly growing problem: polygenic risk scores that were trained almost entirely on European DNA. Lucas and Luna break down a 2025 study from the Broad Institute showing that risk predictions for heart disease and diabetes can be off by over 40 percent for Black and Hispanic patients. They explore why this happens — the genealogical databases, the funding incentives, the missing data — and what companies like 23andMe and academic labs are (and aren't) doing about it. One concrete takeaway: without diverse biobanks, AI-driven preventive…
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