Genome-wide association studies in Africans and African Americans: expanding the framework of the genomics of human traits and disease.

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Published in Public Health Genomics on November 26, 2014

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Emmanuel Peprah, Huichun Xu, Fasil Tekola-Ayele, Charmaine D Royal

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