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Changing the paradigm from 'race' to human genome variation.
Nature genetics - 1 Nov 2004
Royal Charmaine D M, Dunston Georgia M
Abstract excerpt
Knowledge from the Human Genome Project and research on human genome variation increasingly challenges the applicability of the term 'race' to human population groups, raising questions about the validity of inferences made about 'race' in the biomedical and scientific literature. Despite the acknowledged contradictions in contemporary science, population-based genetic variation is continually used to explain...
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