Haplotype background, repeat length evolution, and Huntington's disease.
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چکیده
Shuhua Xu and Li Jin* Chinese Academy of Sciences and Max Planck Society (CAS-MPG) Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; Key Laboratory of Computational Biology, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 200031, China; State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; China Medical City Institute of Health Sciences, Taizhou, Jiangsu 225300, China *Correspondence: [email protected]
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of human genetics
دوره 85 6 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009