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Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank

Black Issuescmaadmin (EDU)
Jun 18, 2003

Howard University Looks to Create DNA Bank

WASHINGTON

Howard University hopes to create the nation’s largest bank of DNA from Black Americans with the aim of studying genes involved in diseases that disproportionately strike Blacks.

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