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. 2003 Jun;40(6):385–398. doi: 10.1136/jmg.40.6.385

Telomeres: a diagnosis at the end of the chromosomes

B B A De Vries 1, R Winter 1, A Schinzel 1, C van Ravenswaaij-A 1
PMCID: PMC1735506  PMID: 12807958

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