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An Allele-specific Gene Expression Assay to Test the Functional Basis of Genetic Associations
Published on: November 3, 2010
A new era of allele-specific diagnostics?
Arthur J Lustig1, Antonella Sgura
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tulane University Medical Center New Orleans, LA, USA.
Frontiers in Genetics
|July 25, 2013
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