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A Protocol for Using Gene Set Enrichment Analysis to Identify the Appropriate Animal Model for Translational Research
Published on: August 16, 2017
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Stina Oredsson1, Sandra Coecke2, Jan van der Valk3
1Department of Biology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
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