The epigenetics of dysmorphology: Craniosynostosis as an example

Epigenetics: Linking Genotype and Phenotype in Development and Evolution

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 377-397

  Percival, Christopher J ^a   Richtsmeier, Joan T ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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