Black and white and read all over: The human genome

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1073-1074

  Alston, Theodore A ^a   Lowenstein, Edward ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Angiotensin converting enzyme; Ethnicity; Genotype; Nondiscrimination; Race

Indexed keywords

DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE; DNA;

ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CHROMOSOME DELETION; EDITORIAL; ETHNOLOGY; GENOTYPE; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN GENOME; INTENSIVE CARE; LAW; LUNG FUNCTION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOME DELETION; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 17; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CRITICAL CARE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; PEPTIDYL-DIPEPTIDASE A; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREJUDICE; RESEARCH SUPPORT; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME, ADULT; SELF DISCLOSURE; VENTILATOR WEANING;

EID: 1842788809     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.CCM.0000119926.81423.76     Document Type: Editorial

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