Beyond race: Towards a whole-genome perspective on human populations and genetic variation

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 790-796

  Foster, Morris W ^a   Sharp, Richard R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHICS; ETHNOLOGY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; HISTORY; LANGUAGE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RELIGION; REVIEW;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOMICS; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 5044224706     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg1452     Document Type: Review

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