Imputation of Race and Ethnicity Categories Using Genetic Ancestry From Real-World Genomic Testing Data

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2024

Jan 03, 2024
Oncology
Presentation

Brooke Rhead, Paige E. Haffener, Yannick Pouliot, and Francisco M. De La Vega

The incompleteness of race and ethnicity information in real-world data (RWD) hampers its utility in promoting healthcare equity. This study introduces two methods—one heuristic and the other machine learning-based—to impute race and ethnicity from genetic ancestry using tumor profiling data.