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The Genetic effects of Immigration in a Rural Community of São Paulo, Brazil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2014

P. H. Saldanha*
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Laboratório de Genética Humana, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

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