Genetics of susceptibility to tuberculosis: Mengele's experiments in Auschwitz

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 631-639

  Müller Hill, Benno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

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Indexed keywords

ART; ARTICLE; CRIME; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GERMANY; HISTORY; POLITICAL SYSTEM; RESEARCH; TUBERCULOSIS;

GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; GERMANY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PORTRAITS; RESEARCH; TUBERCULOSIS; WAR CRIMES;

EID: 0035430579     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35084588     Document Type: Review

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