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With advances in genetic technologies it is suggested that social constructions of race will diminish, but arguments have been made that race is in fact being reinstated as a scientifically-justified genetic category. Variation in drug responses between groups of people beyond that explained by genomic differences has been widely attributed to race or ethnicity, thereby proliferating racial classifications. In addition, the use of racial self-identification in biomedical diagnoses may be perceived as problematic in failing to reflect the true biological ancestry and genetics of the patient, further compounding the issue of race-based medicine.