Genome-wide linkage scan for colorectal cancer susceptibility genes supports linkage to chromosome 3q
✍ Scribed by Simone Picelli; Jana Vandrovcova; Siân Jones; Tatjana Djureinovic; Johanna Skoglund; Xiao-Lei Zhou; Victor E Velculescu; Bert Vogelstein; Annika Lindblom
- Book ID
- 115011503
- Publisher
- BioMed Central
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 274 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1471-2407
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