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Pan-African genomics
January 29, 2013 Editor 0
Nature Biotechnology 31, 10 (2013).
doi:10.1038/nbt0113-10bAuthor: Linda Nordling
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the London-based charity Wellcome Trust launched a new initiative designed to bolster Africa’s genomics research capacity. The Human Heredity and Health in Africa (H3Africa) scheme announced on October 8 is a $38-million, five-year project aimed at studying diseases that affect the continent’s people.
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