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Correspondence: V

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Two letters by Prof. Kurt Benirschke relating to Ajit Varki.
Also includes a draft of a paper by Ajit Varki entitled "Chimpanzee Genome Project is a Biomedical Imperative", and Vintagenix's promotional leaflet.
There is some additional 2000-2001 correspondence for V in file PP/CRI/J/1/8/21.

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Correspondence: V

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