By LARRY HENDRICKS
Sun Staff Reporter
02/28/2004
Members of the Havasupai Tribe filed a $25 million lawsuit Friday in Coconino County Superior Court against Arizona State University, the Arizona Board of Regents and three ASU professors.
The 52 tribal members named in the suit claim they were told more than 400 blood samples taken from them between 1990 and 1994 would be used to study diabetes, not inbreeding, schizophrenia and theories about ancient human population migrations to North America.
And it was a lack of oversight by ASU's Institutional Review Board and violation of federal law that allowed the unauthorized studies using the blood samples to occur, according to the lawsuit.
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