Chapter 5.7 Aging, Alzheimer's disease and frameshift mutations

Techniques in the Behavioral and Neural Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue C, 1999, Pages 863-879

  Van den Hurk, Wilhelmina H ^a   Van Leeuwen, Fred W ^b   Martens, Gerard J M ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0242623000     PISSN: 09210709     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0921-0709(99)80064-9     Document Type: Article

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