Characterization of an interstitial 4q32 deletion in a patient with mental retardation and a complex chromosome rearrangement
β Scribed by Andreas Tzschach; Corinna Menzel; Fikret Erdogan; Erman Salih Istifli; Martin Rieger; Angela Ovens-Raeder; Alfons Macke; Hans-Hilger Ropers; Reinhard Ullmann; Vera Kalscheuer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 138 KB
- Volume
- 152A
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4825
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