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No matter what race you consider yourself to be, you have a unique genetic makeup.
That's why, as technology improves and researchers explore new implications of the human genome, medicine is going to become more individually tailored in a model called personalized medicine.
Although we've been hearing for years that people of particular races are at higher risk for certain illnesses, personalized medicine will (in theory) make better predictions based on actual genetic makeup. And even now, race is less relevant to your own health care than you might think.
But doctors say a patient's culture -- the collection of norms, goals, attitudes, values and beliefs -- will always be important to health care, no matter how sophisticated genetic technology gets.
Biologically, what is race?
When it comes down to it there's, no clear-cut way of saying that one person "belongs" to one race or another -- in fact, a person who has the skin color and hair type typical of one race may self-identify in a completely different way.
And if you think that race comes from location-based populations...