Can segregated neighborhoods change people’s genes?

Friday, November 16, 2018 - 10:32 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Researchers know that African-Americans get sicker and die earlier than white people—and now, a University of Michigan researcher will study whether racial segregation plays a part by changing a person’s genes. Margaret Hicken, director of the U-M Racism Lab at the Institute for Social Research, has won a $3.6 million grant from the National Institute […]

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