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Obtaining informed consent for genomics research in Africa: analysis of H3Africa consent documents
- Correspondence to Dr Jantina de Vries, Division Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town 7925, South Africa; jantina.devries{at}uct.ac.za, jantina1304{at}gmail.com
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Obtaining informed consent for genomics research in Africa: analysis of H3Africa consent documents
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- Received March 20, 2015
- Revised September 7, 2015
- Accepted September 15, 2015
- First published December 7, 2015.
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April 27, 2016
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