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. 1996 May;58(5):1089–1092.

A gene for premature ovarian failure associated with eyelid malformation maps to chromosome 3q22-q23.

P Amati, P Gasparini, J Zlotogora, L Zelante, J C Chomel, A Kitzis, J Kaplan, D Bonneau
PMCID: PMC1914611  PMID: 8651270

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