A frame shift mutation in a tissue-specific alternatively spliced exon of collagen 2a1 in wagner’s vitreoretinal degeneration
✍ Scribed by Martin Snead; Allan Richards
- Book ID
- 117018521
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 43 KB
- Volume
- 134
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9394
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