Department of Pediatrics, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, USA.
Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA.
Genet Med. 2021 Jun;23(6):1004-1007. doi: 10.1038/s41436-021-01109-w. Epub 2021 Mar 1.
From its earliest days, the field of human genetics has had a complex, and at times troubling, connection with racist ideologies. Although the modern field of human genetics and genomics has come a long way from those earlier errors, systemic racism remains ingrained in its institutions and practices. Although a variety of efforts are needed to excise systemic racism, we focus in this commentary on the work that must be done in scientific publishing in genetics and genomics. We propose eight principles that are both scientifically grounded and antiracist that we hope will serve as a foundation for the development of policies by publishers and editorial boards that address the unique needs of the field of genetics and genomics. Publishers and journals must go beyond mere policies, however. Editors and reviewers will need training on these policies and principles, and will benefit from resources like rubrics that can be used for evaluating the adherence of submissions to these guidelines.
从早期开始，人类遗传学领域就与种族主义意识形态有着复杂而有时令人困扰的联系。尽管现代人类遗传学和基因组学领域已经从那些早期的错误中走了很长一段路，但系统种族主义仍然深深扎根于其机构和实践中。尽管需要采取各种措施来消除系统性种族主义，但我们在这篇评论中重点关注遗传学和基因组学科学出版领域必须开展的工作。我们提出了八项既具有科学依据又具有反种族主义性质的原则，希望这些原则能够为出版商和编辑委员会制定政策提供基础，以满足遗传学和基因组学领域的独特需求。然而，出版商和期刊必须不仅仅制定政策。编辑和审稿人需要接受这些政策和原则的培训，并受益于可以用于评估提交材料遵守这些准则的评分标准等资源。
