The Enculturated Gene : : Sickle Cell Health Politics and Biological Difference in West Africa / / Duana Fullwiley.
In the 1980s, a research team led by Parisian scientists identified several unique DNA sequences, or haplotypes, linked to sickle cell anemia in African populations. After casual observations of how patients managed this painful blood disorder, the researchers in question postulated that the Senegal...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 7 halftones. 1 line illus. 4 maps. |
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