Animal models for dysmorphology

Current Opinion in Genetics and Development

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 293-297

  Winter, Robin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL MODEL; GENOME IMPRINTING; MALFORMATION SYNDROME; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0032102603     PISSN: 0959437X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(98)80084-1     Document Type: Article

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