Boy with celiac disease, malformations, and ring chromosome 13 with deletion 13q32?qter
✍ Scribed by Talvik, Inga ;�unap, Katrin ;Bartsch, Oliver ;Ilus, Tiiu ;Uibo, Oivi ;Talvik, Tiina
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Volume
- 93
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0148-7299
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