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Murine Fetal Echocardiography

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Published on: February 15, 2013

Hemoglobinopathies in the Fetal Position

Sant-Rayn Pasricha¹, Hal Drakesmith¹

¹From the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, the Department of Medical Biology, University of Melbourne, the Department of Diagnostic Haematology, Royal Melbourne Hospital, and Clinical Haematology at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Royal Melbourne Hospital - all in Parkville, VIC, Australia (S.-R.P.); and the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, Medical Research Council Human Immunology Unit, and Haematology Theme, Oxford Biomedical Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom (H.D.).

The New England Journal of Medicine

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