Taking and storing biological samples for longitudinal birth cohorts
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The Canadian healthy infant longitudinal development birth cohort study: biological samples and biobanking.
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عنوان ژورنال: Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0269-5022,1365-3016
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2008.01004.x