Clinical features and molecular analysis of the alpha thalassemia/mental retardation syndromes. I. Cases due to deletions involving chromosome band 16p13.3.

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Published in Am J Hum Genet on June 01, 1990

Authors

A O Wilkie1, V J Buckle, P C Harris, J Lamb, N J Barton, S T Reeders, R H Lindenbaum, R D Nicholls, M Barrow, N C Bethlenfalvay

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1: Medical Research Council Molecular Haematology Unit, Institute of Molecular Medicine, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, England.

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