Familial susceptibility to breast cancer: A complex inheritance
✍ Scribed by Nadine Andrieu; Françoise Clavel; Florence Demenais
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- French
- Weight
- 528 KB
- Volume
- 44
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0020-7136
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