High Prevalence of the Thermolabile Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Variant in Mexico: A Country with a Very High Prevalence of Neural Tube Defects
✍ Scribed by Osvaldo M. Mutchinick; Marı́a A. López; Leonora Luna; Jonathan Waxman; Victoria E. Babinsky
- Book ID
- 115639621
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1999
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 56 KB
- Volume
- 68
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1096-7192
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