Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 44, Issue 1 , Pages 52-56 , March 2005

Prenatal Diagnosis of Classical Phenylketonuria with Polymerase Chain Reaction, Automatic Sequencing, and Linkage Analysis with Short Tandem Repeats

Received 3 September 2004 ,Revised 20 September 2004 ,Accepted 20 September 2004.

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doi: 10.1016/S1028-4559(09)60107-8

Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Volume 44, Issue 1 , Pages 52-56 , March 2005

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