Racial profiling of dna samples: Will it affect scientific knowledge about human genetic variation?

Populations and Genetics: Legal and Socio-Ethical Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 231-244

  Lee, Sandra Soo Jin ^a   Koenig, Barbara A ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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