Utility of Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization in Clinical and Research Applications
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1Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, 975 West Walnut Street IB 354, Indianapolis, IN 46202, USA; Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, 350 West 11th Street, Indianapolis, IN 46202-5120, USA.
Clinics in Laboratory Medicine
|November 11, 2022
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