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This panel brings together members of recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine committees and a leading medical journal editor that have offered guidance surrounding the use of population labels in biomedical research. 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As large-scale genomic data sets are increasingly linked, harmonized, and repurposed across studies, questions about how to meaningfully define and compare population descriptors have taken on renewed urgency. 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