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In Vivo Functional Study of Disease-associated Rare Human Variants Using Drosophila
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Further evidence of dominant inheritance of Kabuki syndrome
Caroline C Pottinger1, Rhianwen E Stiff, Judy M Holroyd
1Department of Cheshire and Merseyside Regional Clinical Genetics Service, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool, UK.
Clinical Dysmorphology
|July 24, 2009
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