Analysis of helicase gene mutations in Japanese Werner’s syndrome patients
✍ Scribed by Makaoto Goto; Osamu Imamura; Junro Kuromitsu; Takehisa Matsumoto; Yukako Yamabe; Yoshiki Tokutake; Noriyuki Suzuki; Brian Mason; Dennis Drayna; Minoru Sugawara; Masanobu Sugimoto; Y. Furuichi
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 23 KB
- Volume
- 99
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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