Race, populations, and genomics: Africa as laboratory

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1580-1588

  Braun, Lundy ^a   Hammonds, Evelynn ^b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Genetics; Linguistics; Population; Race; Social anthropology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; GENOMICS; INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT; LABORATORY METHOD; LANGUAGE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION GENETICS; RACE;

AFRICA; ANTHROPOLOGY; ARTICLE; CLERGY; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOGRAPHY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LANGUAGE; LINGUISTICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; RACE DIFFERENCE;

AFRICA; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; GENETICS, POPULATION; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; POPULATION GROUPS;

AFRICA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 52949129400     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2008.07.018     Document Type: Article

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