African partnerships through the H3Africa Consortium bring a genomic dimension to longitudinal population studies on the continent.
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African partnerships through the H3Africa Consortium bring a genomic dimension to longitudinal population studies on the continent Michèle Ramsay* and Osman Sankoh; as members of the AWI-Gen study and the H3Africa Consortium Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, INDEPTH Network, Kanda, Accra, Ghana and Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
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عنوان ژورنال:
- International journal of epidemiology
دوره 45 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2016