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Tay-Sachs screening in the Jewish Ashkenazi population: DNA testing is the preferred procedure

✍ Scribed by Bach, Gideon ;Tomczak, Jerzy ;Risch, Neil ;Ekstein, Josef

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Weight: 102 KB
Volume: 99
Category: Article
ISSN: 0148-7299
DOI: 10.1002/1096-8628(20010215)99:1<70::aid-ajmg1120>3.0.co;2-0

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