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Suman Lee1, Sook-Hwan Lee, Tae-Gyu Chung

  • 1Genome Research Center for Reproductive Medicine and Infertility, CHA General Hospital, College of Medicine, Pochon CHA University, Seoul, Republic of Korea. suman@cha.ac.kr

Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
|October 9, 2003
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