Discordant retinoblastoma in monozygotic twins

American Journal of Ophthalmology

Volumn 128, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 524-526

  Marcus, Dennis M ^a   Papastergiou, Georgios I ^a   Patel, Milan ^a   Pandya, Arti ^b   Brooks, Steven E ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASE REPORT; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFANT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINOBLASTOMA; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TUMOR SUPPRESSOR GENE;

EID: 0032851479     PISSN: 00029394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9394(99)00197-X     Document Type: Article

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