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The Critical Needs and Challenges for Genetic Architecture Studies in Africa

2018-06-13

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Human genetic studies have long been vastly Eurocentric, raising a key question about the generalizability of these study findings to other populations. Because humans originated in Africa, these populations retain more genetic diversity, and yet individuals of African descent have been tremendously underrepresented in genetic studies. The diversity in Africa affords ample opportunities to improve fine-mapping res...

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Literature Corpus work: 1f532596-8ad4-540c-a1f2-66e029d940b8
DOI: 10.20944/preprints201806.0201.v1

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