Expanding association between BICD2 variants and brain malformations and associated lissencephaly
Jaeso Cho1, Haeryung Kim2, Seoungbok Lee1
1Department of Genomic Medicine, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
Clinical and Experimental Pediatrics
|December 21, 2023
Abstract
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