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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is unaffected by multiple freeze-thaw cycles
Diana M Antoniucci1, Dennis M Black, Deborah E Sellmeyer
1Division of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA. dantoniucci@psg.ucsf.edu
Clinical Chemistry
|December 23, 2004
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