Recognizing a Small Amount of Superficial Genetic Differences Across African, European and Asian Americans Helps Understand Social Construction of Race

Demography

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2337-2342

  Guo, Guang ^a,b   Fu, Yilan ^a   Lee, Hedwig ^c   Cai, Tianji ^d   Li, Yi ^a   Harris, Kathleen Mullan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MACAU   (Macao)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY GROUP; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; STANDARDS;

CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; HUMANS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 84916207008     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-014-0349-y     Document Type: Article

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