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Correspondence
Nature 415, 115 (10 January 2002) | doi:10.1038/415115b
Dropped genetics paper lacked scientific merit
Neil Risch1, Alberto Piazza2 & L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza1
- Department of Genetics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305, USA
- 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.
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