Genome-Wide Association Studies in Africans and African Americans: Expanding the Framework of the Genomics of Human Traits and Disease

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• Publication year

  2014

• Venue

  Public Health Genomics

• Publication date

  2014-11-26

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1159/000367962PMID 25427668PMCID PMC4418477
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