Genetic histories: Native americans' accounts of being at risk for diabetes

Social Studies of Science

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 821-842

  Sahota, Puneet Chawla ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomedical research; diabetes; genetics research; genetics risk; Native Americans; thrifty genotype hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84869019956     PISSN: 03063127     EISSN: 14603659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0306312712454044     Document Type: Article

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