Invited Commentary: The Epicenter of Translational Science
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Khoury et al. Respond to “The Epicenter of Translational Science”: Crossing All the T's
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 2010. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0002-9262,1476-6256
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq212