Issues in Genetic Testing
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Issues in genetic testing.
The Clinical Chemistry Forums of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry are designed to air controversial issues in the broad field of clinical chemistry. The Eighth Annual Forum was held on November 3 and 4, 1998. This Forum differed from previous meetings in the series in that it was sponsored cooperatively by the Association for Molecular Pathology. The topic of the meeting was “Iss...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1093/clinchem/45.6.915