Serendipitous diagnosis of mild recessive multiple epiphyseal dysplasia through parental-targeted screening test
Yves Lacassie1, John M Storment, Gabriel A Lazarin
1Department of Pediatrics, Division of Genetics, LSU Health Sciences Center and Children's Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA. ylacas@lsuhsc.edu
American Journal of Medical Genetics. Part A
|November 5, 2011
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