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Nature 415, 115 (10 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415115b

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Dropped genetics paper lacked scientific merit

Neil Risch1, Alberto Piazza2 & L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza1

  1. Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
  2. Department of Genetics, Biology and Biochemistry, University of Torino, Via Santena 19, 10126 Torino, Italy

Even though the controversial withdrawal of a paper on the genetic relatedness of Palestinians and Jews by the journal Human Immunology (see Nature 414, 382; 2001) is a minor episode compared with the tragedies caused by ethnic/religious conflicts over past decades, the issues involved are worth revisiting.The stated purpose of the paper by Antonio Arnaiz-Villena et al.