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Scott M Williams1, Giorgio Sirugo2, Sarah A Tishkoff3
1Departments of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences, and Genetics and Genome Sciences, Cleveland Institute for Computational Biology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA.
Med (New York, N.Y.)
|May 19, 2022
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Williams, Sirugo, and Tishkoff discuss the recent article by Choudhury et al.1 reporting the whole-genome sequencing of 426 sub-Saharan African individuals and its contribution to the study of genetic diversity to understand human evolutionary history and health.
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