Categorization of humans in biomedical research: Genes, race and disease

Genome Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2002, Pages

  Risch, Neil ^a,b   Burchard, Esteban ^c   Ziv, Elad ^c   Tang, Hua ^d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HUMAN GENETICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; SELF REPORT; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALLELES; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; DISEASE; DRUG THERAPY; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENES; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; RESEARCH; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036381531     PISSN: 14656906     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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