The molecular heterogeneity of β-thalassemia in Greece
✍ Scribed by Marina Boussiou; Photini Karababa; Klio Sinopoulou; Panagiotis Tsaftaridis; Eleni Plata; Aphrodite Loutradi-Anagnostou
- Book ID
- 116304563
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 118 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1079-9796
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