Socially responsible genetic research with descendants of the First Australians

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  van Holst Pellekaan, Sheila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Australia; Colonization; Dispossession; Ethics; Genetic; Resistance

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ABORIGINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMMUNICATION SKILL; COMMUNITY; COOPERATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENETICS; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFUSAL TO PARTICIPATE; RESEARCH ETHICS; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 84871501076     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-3-22     Document Type: Article

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