'Race' as a social construction in genetics

Identity Politics and the New Genetics: Re/Creating Categories of Difference and Belonging

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 30-52

  Smart, Andrew ^a   Tutton, Richard ^b   Martin, Paul ^c   Ellison, George T H ^d  

^a BATH SPA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d LONDON METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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