Telomerase gene identified.
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1 Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA, 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA, 3 Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA and 4 Department of Physics and Computer Science, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA * Corresponding author. Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. Tel.: þ 1 617 525 4833; Fax: þ 1 617 525 4830; E-mail: [email protected]
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Environmental Health Perspectives
دوره 105 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1997