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The article "African American Genome Mappers Pledge To Carry On Despite Grant Rejection" (N. Sankaran, The Scientist, March 6, 1995, page 1) may have conveyed the impression that the proj-ect's grant application was rejected for funding by the National Institutes of Health. Following the three-year African American genome project (G-RAP) planning grant, the researchers submitted a synopsis of an intended follow-up study that was reviewed internally by the program staff of the National Center fo


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The article "African American Genome Mappers Pledge To Carry On Despite Grant Rejection" (N. Sankaran, The Scientist, March 6, 1995, page 1) may have conveyed the impression that the proj-ect's grant application was rejected for funding by the National Institutes of Health. Following the three-year African American genome project (G-RAP) planning grant, the researchers submitted a synopsis of an intended follow-up study that was reviewed internally by the program staff of the National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR). It was determined that the follow-up proj-ect was too broad for the mission of NCHGR; hence, the grant application was not submitted to NIH for review.

The same article gave incorrect information regarding salaries for academic chemists. Within Ph.D.-granting chemistry departments, salaries are higher in private schools than in public schools. Within B.S.-granting departments, salaries are higher in public schools than in private schools. Additionally, the example of median salaries for ...

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