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Addressing the gaps: sex differences in osteoarthritis of the knee
Barbara D Boyan1, Laura L Tosi, Richard D Coutts
1Wallace H, Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 315 Ferst Drive NW, Atlanta, GA, 30332-0363, USA. barbara.boyan@bme.gatech.edu.
Biology of Sex Differences
|February 5, 2013
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An introduction to the accompanying three papers.
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