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Adaptation of Semiautomated Circulating Tumor Cell (CTC) Assays for Clinical and Preclinical Research Applications
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2012 William Allan Award: Adventures in cytogenetics
1Departments of Genetics and Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. ufrancke@stanford.edu
American Journal of Human Genetics
|March 12, 2013
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