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Ethics and the Human Genome Diversity Project: An African Perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 May 2016

Trefor Jenkins*
Affiliation:
South African Institute for Medical Research, South Africa
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Symposium: The Human Genome Diversity Project
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Copyright © Association for Politics and the Life Sciences 

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