MEDICAL GENETICS IN PRACTICE A report of a national mutation testing service for the MEN1 gene: clinical presentations and implications for mutation testing
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J W Cardinal, L Bergman, N Hayward, A Sweet, J Warner, L Marks, D Learoyd, T Dwight, B Robinson, M Epstein, M Smith, B T Teh, D P Cameron, J B Prins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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