Dissecting the epidemiology of a trinucleotide repeat disease – example of FRDA in Finland
✍ Scribed by Vesa Juvonen; Satu-Maria Kulmala; Jaakko Ignatius; Maila Penttinen; Marja-Liisa Savontaus
- Book ID
- 106133604
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2001
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 50 KB
- Volume
- 110
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6717
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