Table 1 Glossary of terms

• Race: A social construct that classifies groups with perceived shared physical characteristics that are historically employed to create power dynamics⁵

• Ethnicity: Groups linked by sociodemographic characteristics, including culture, diet, history, language and religion⁵

• Ethno-racial: A construct of the aforementioned terms race and ethnicity

• Ancestry: Groups that share common lineage, geography or genetics⁹⁴

• Social determinants of health: Factors that can have differential impacts on health including but not limited to: health access, health literacy, environment, education, income and food insecurity⁹⁵

• Genetic drift: A random change in frequency of a genetic variant (factor)⁹⁶