CEPH
CEPH: The Centre d’Etudes du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH), an internationally renowned research laboratory created in Paris in 1984 by Professor Jean Dausset (Nobel Prize, Medicine and Physiology, 1980) to provide the scientific community with resources for human genome mapping. Also known as the Foundation Jean Dausset-CEPH.
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