Genetic insights into cardiometabolic risk factors

Clinical Biochemist Reviews

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 15-36

  Whitfield, John B ^a  

^a QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

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EID: 84901987345     PISSN: 01598090     EISSN: 18380212     Source Type: Journal    
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