Phenotypically concordant and discordant monozygotic twins display different DNA copy-number-variation profiles.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on February 14, 2008

Authors

Carl E G Bruder1, Arkadiusz Piotrowski, Antoinet A C J Gijsbers, Robin Andersson, Stephen Erickson, Teresita Diaz de Ståhl, Uwe Menzel, Johanna Sandgren, Desiree von Tell, Andrzej Poplawski, Michael Crowley, Chiquito Crasto, E Christopher Partridge, Hemant Tiwari, David B Allison, Jan Komorowski, Gert-Jan B van Ommen, Dorret I Boomsma, Nancy L Pedersen, Johan T den Dunnen, Karin Wirdefeldt, Jan P Dumanski

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294-0024, USA. cbruder@genetics.uab.edu

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