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Recognizing a Small Amount of Superficial Genetic Differences Across African, European and Asian Americans Helps Understand Social Construction of Race

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  1. Department of Sociology and Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina, CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599-3210, USA

    Guang Guo, Yilan Fu, Yi Li & Kathleen Mullan Harris

  2. Carolina Center for Genome Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Guang Guo & Kathleen Mullan Harris

  3. Department of Sociology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA

    Hedwig Lee

  4. Department of Sociology, University of Macau, Av. Padre Tomás Pereira, Taipa, Macau

    Tianji Cai

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Guo, G., Fu, Y., Lee, H. et al. Recognizing a Small Amount of Superficial Genetic Differences Across African, European and Asian Americans Helps Understand Social Construction of Race. Demography 51, 2337–2342 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13524-014-0349-y

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