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. 2004 Mar;112(4):A210–A211. doi: 10.1289/ehp.112-1241906

Decoding the riddle: the dawn of RNAi for the study of gene-gene and gene-environment interactions.

Vilius Stribinskis, Kenneth S Ramos
PMCID: PMC1241906  PMID: 15033602

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