Genomics - A global public good?

Lancet

Volumn 361, Issue 9361, 2003, Pages 891-892

  Thorsteinsdóttir, Halla ^a   Daar, Abdallah S ^a,b   Smith, Richard D ^d   Singer, Peter A ^a,c  

^a at the University of Toronto Wagner is also a faculty member of the Canadian Medical Associations' Physician Management Institute   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GENOMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; INTERNET; MALARIA; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 0037443985     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(03)12786-9     Document Type: Note

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