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Clinical characteristics of Parkinson’s disease among Jewish Ethnic groups in Israel

✍ Scribed by R. Djaldetti; S. Hassin-Baer; M. J. Farrer; C. Vilariño-Güell; O. A. Ross; V. Kolianov; S. Yust-Katz; T. A. Treves; Y. Barhum; M. Hulihan; E. Melamed

Publisher: Springer
Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Weight: 192 KB
Volume: 115
Category: Article
ISSN: 1435-1463
DOI: 10.1007/s00702-008-0074-z

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