African partnerships through the H3Africa Consortium bring a genomic dimension to longitudinal population studies on the continent

International Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 305-308

  Ramsay, Michèle ^a   Sankoh, Osman ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b Studies of the Epidemiology of Epilepsy in Demographic Surveillance Systems   (Ghana)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN; BODY COMPOSITION; ECOLOGICAL GENETICS; EDITORIAL; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOMICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; PHENOTYPE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; AFRICA; ETHICS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; TRENDS;

AFRICA; GENOMICS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES;

EID: 84971645689     PISSN: 03005771     EISSN: 14643685     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ije/dyv187     Document Type: Editorial

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