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Etymology

Etymology tree English genomic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English genomicist From genomic + -ist.

Meanings

1. A scientist whose speciality is genomics.
   • This occurred because genetic data clustering is highly dependent on the genomicists’ initial racially distorted hypotheses and methodologies. Because genetic data are chosen and analyzed by genomicists immersed in racialized cultures which provide them the means of making sense of human genetic variation they, as I discuss later in the book, are apt to design studies and interpret data to suggest a relatively small fraction of genetic variation between socially defined racial groups connotes biological 'race.' 2016, Johnny E. Williams, Decoding Racial Ideology in Genomics, Lexington Books, page 16:
   • Like many genomicists working at this turning point in race-based medicine and genomic policy, company scientists struggled to align their definition of race with critical thought and ideas from the public domain. 2012, Catherine Bliss, Race Decoded: The Genomic Fight for Social Justice, Stanford University Press, page 72:
   • 2009, C. Neal Stewart, Jr., Weedy and Invasive Plant Genomics, Wiley (Wiley-Blackwell), page xv, Simply, most weed scientists don't know about molecular genetics and most genomicists have yet to discover the world of fast-evolving weeds.

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