A biologist's perspective on DNA and race in the genomics era

Genetics and the Unsettled Past: The Collision of DNA, Race, and History

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 43-66

  Gabriel, Abram ^a  

^a Rutgers University   (United States)

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