In The Atlantic: MPH student advocates making indigenous peoples equal partners in gene reserach
Speaking at the 2015 meeting of the American Society for Human Genetics (ASHG), Krystal Tsosie from Vanderbilt University said the case of The Akimel O’odham (Pima), a group of Native Americans from Arizona, withdrawing their partnership with the NIH in 2003, and signing a $5 million agreement with a non-profit organization called the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), exemplified how indigenous groups are taking charge of their fates in the world of modern genetics. “The Tribe approached the researchers, not vice versa,” she said. “The researchers are more like consultants.”