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1Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, GKTSchool of Medicine, 8th Floor, Guy's Hospital Tower, London Bridge, SE1 9RT, London, UK. Adrienne.Knight@kcl.ac.uk
Lancet (London, England)
|January 11, 2002
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