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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