Polygenic control of Caenorhabditis elegans fat storage.

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Published in Nat Genet on February 05, 2006

Authors

Ho Yi Mak1, Laura S Nelson, Michael Basson, Carl D Johnson, Gary Ruvkun

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1: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114, USA.

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