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Geographic distribution of French-Canadian low-density lipoprotein receptor gene mutations in the Province of Quebec

✍ Scribed by Marie-Claude Vohl; Sital Moorjan; Madeleine Roy; Daniel Gaudet; Ana Lucia Torres; Ann Minnich; Claude Gagné; Gérald Tremblay; Marie Lambert; Jean Bergeron; Patrick Couture; Patrice Perron; Shirley Blaichman; Louis-Daniel Brun; Jean Davignon; Paul J. Lupien; Jean-Pierre Després

Book ID
110887648
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2008
Tongue
English
Weight
566 KB
Volume
52
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-9163

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