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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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