Constitutional hyperrecombinability and its consequences

Genetics

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-8

  German, James ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENOMICS; HUMAN CHROMOSOME; LITERATURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE;

BLOOM SYNDROME; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN; GENETICS, MEDICAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC;

EID: 5144228046     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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