Female development in mammals is regulated by Wnt-4 signalling.

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Published in Nature on February 04, 1999

Authors

S Vainio1, M Heikkilä, A Kispert, N Chin, A P McMahon

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1: Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, The BioLabs, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.

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