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American DNA: Bioethics and the Excavation of Difference from the Human Genome

The resurgence of race in genomic research has renewed longstanding debates about the biological basis of human difference, raising urgent ethical questions about how science reanimates and recodes the meaning of race.

Sandra Soo-Jin Lee Sandra Soo-Jin Lee

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Estimating the number of diseases – the concept of rare, ultra-rare, and hyper-rare

Smith, C. I. Edvard, Peter Bergman and Daniel W. Hagey. 2022. Estimating the number of diseases – the concept of rare, ultra-rare, and hyper...

Edvard Smith Edvard Smith

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Cooperative gene regulation by microRNA pairs and their identification using a computational workflow

Ulf Schmitz, Ulf, Xin Lai, Felix Winter, Olaf Wolkenhauer et al. 2014. Cooperative gene regulation by microRNA pairs and their identificatio...

Placeholder image Olaf Wolkenhauer

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TRAPLINE: A Standardized and Automated Pipeline for RNA Sequencing Data Analysis, Evaluation and Annotation

Wolfien, Markus, Christian Rimmbach, Ulf Schmitz, Julia Jeannine Jung, Stefan Krebs, Gustav Steinhoff, Robert David, and Olaf Wolkenhauer. 2...

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