Familial West syndrome and dystonia caused by an Aristaless related homeobox gene mutation
✍ Scribed by Gabriele Wohlrab; Goekhan Uyanik; Claudia Gross; Ute Hehr; Jürgen Winkler; Bernhard Schmitt; Eugen Boltshauser
- Book ID
- 106120785
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Volume
- 164
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0340-6997
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