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Observations Regarding Future Research
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... In their 54-month progress report, the Columbia University researchers noted that a study that used a group of veterans that had previously been identified for research or administrative purposes might be initiated relatively easily. Examples include cohorts drawn from the VA Agent Orange Registry, III Corps combat battalions for which location data exist in already-identified National Archives data sources, and cohorts whose locations were documented by the US Armed Services Environmental Support Groupie as part of previous VA epidemiologic studies.
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