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A Phenotyping Regimen for Genetically Modified Mice Used to Study Genes Implicated in Human Diseases of Aging
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The SERPING1 gene and age-related macular degeneration
Caroline C W Klaver1, Arthur A B Bergen
1Department of Ophthalmology and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam 3000CA, Netherlands. carolineklaver@yahoo.com
Lancet (London, England)
|October 10, 2008
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