Research on behavioral phenotypes: velocardiofacial syndrome (deletion 22q11.2)
P P Wang1, M F Woodin, R Kreps-Falk
1Children's Seashore House, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA. wangp@mail.med.upenn.edu
Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology
|June 30, 2000
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