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Familial cancer risks in affected sibships: Results from the Swedish Family-Cancer Database

✍ Scribed by Kari Hemminki; Pentti Kyyrönen

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
39 KB
Volume
19
Category
Article
ISSN
0741-0395

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