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Nature Medicine 14, 704–705 (1 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/nm0708-704

Straight talk with...Charles Rotimi

What will you be studying at the new center? The way I see it, the mission is really to see how we can apply genomic tools to understand disease at basic scientific levels and to see how we can use that understanding to shed some light on the issue of health disparity. When you look at two groups, whether in terms of ethnicity, gender or socioeconomics, we ask the question, “Why do you see more disease in one group compared to the other?”; that's health disparity.