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Back on track: the rebirth of human genetics in China

Nature volume 396, pages 303–304 (1998)Cite this article

Concern about the growing interest of foreign companies and research institutes in China's wealth of genetic resources has helped the country's geneticists to cement political support for their own research efforts. In the process of doing so, the country appears to have successfully cast off the anti-Mendelian beliefs of its early communist era.

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Dickson, D. Back on track: the rebirth of human genetics in China. Nature 396, 303–304 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1038/24470

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