A personal sixty-year tour of genetics and medicine

Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages 1-14

  Knudson, Alfred G ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Genetic chaos; Two hits

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CYTOGENETICS; GENETIC DISORDER; GENETIC SELECTION; INBORN ERROR OF METABOLISM; INCIDENCE; MEDICAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; REVIEW; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PEDIATRICS; PORTRAITS; RETINOBLASTOMA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 25844499158     PISSN: 15278204     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genom.6.080604.162320     Document Type: Review

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