TY - JOUR AU - Taiwo, Rasheed O. AU - Ipadeola, John AU - Yusuf, Temilola AU - Fagbohunlu, Faith AU - Jenfa, Gbemisola AU - Adebamowo, Sally N. AU - Adebamowo, Clement A. AU - the Indigene Study as part of the H3Africa Consortium PY - 2020 DA - 2020/12/09 TI - Qualitative study of comprehension of heritability in genomics studies among the Yoruba in Nigeria JO - BMC Medical Ethics SP - 124 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - With growth of genomics research in Africa, concern has arisen about comprehension and adequacy of informed consent given the highly technical terms used in this field. We therefore decided to study whether there are linguistic and cultural concepts used to communicate heritability of characters, traits and diseases in an indigenous African population. SN - 1472-6939 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12910-020-00567-2 DO - 10.1186/s12910-020-00567-2 ID - Taiwo2020 ER -