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Personal perspective: bootless

Given an opportunity to chronicle the experience of traversing America as a Black man, I elect to convey a less frequently told vantage point. This is the perspective of the ‘accomplished’ bootless.

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Correspondence to Russell J. Ledet.

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Ledet, R.J. Personal perspective: bootless. Nat Genet 52, 1133–1134 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-020-00720-y

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