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dated April 28, 1958: Research centre

The Human Variation Unit, which was established at the Cancer Research Institute in Bombay in 1953, with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation and Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, will be taken over by the Central Government in April 1959. According to an official press release, the Unit has taken a leading role in carrying on studies on the distribution of blood groups and other genetical characteristics in some endogamous groups, castes and sub-castes in Bombay. There are enormous diversities among the people of India. The Unit makes use of this unique human material for study of the problems of human heredity. It has also assisted in the establishment of a Blood Group Reference Centre for India by the Indian Council of Medical Research by supplying laboratory facilities and trained personnel and some re-agents not available in the country. The Centre has been functioning in Bombay since 1957. The unit is one of the constituent activities of the Demographic Training and Research Centre established recently in Bombay and is involved in teaching and research programmes in connection with the qualitative aspects of population.

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