• DOI:10.1007/S12394-010-0074-7
Corpus ID: 144786737

“The Map of the Mexican’s Genome”: overlapping national identity, and population genomics

@article{SchwartzMarn2010TheMO,
  title={“The Map of the Mexican’s Genome”: overlapping national identity, and population genomics},
  author={Ernesto Schwartz-Mar{\'i}n and I. Silva-Zolezzi},
  journal={Identity in the Information Society},
  year={2010},
  volume={3},
  pages={489-514}
}

Ernesto Schwartz-Marín, I. Silva-Zolezzi

Published 2010

Sociology

Identity in the Information Society

This paper explores the intersections between national identity and the production of medical/population genomics in Mexico. The ongoing efforts to construct a Haplotype Map of Mexican genetic diversity offers a unique opportunity to illustrate and analyze the exchange between the historic-political narratives of nationalism, and the material culture of genomic science. Haplotypes are central actants in the search for medically significant SNP’s (single nucleotide polymorphisms), as well as… CONTINUE READING

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