Limb development: Molecular dysmorphology is at hand!

Clinical Genetics

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 337-348

  Innis, Jeffrey W ^a   Mortlock, Douglas P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Limb development; Molecular dysmorphology; Pattern organs

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL GENETICS; LIMB DEVELOPMENT; LIMB MALFORMATION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031745167     PISSN: 00099163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0004.1998.tb02744.x     Document Type: Review

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