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Theme: Pharmacogenomic, Proteomic & Metabolomic Applications - Review

Metabolomics for tumor marker discovery and identification based on chromatography–mass spectrometry

Peiyuan Yin CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China
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Guowang Xu CAS Key Laboratory of Separation Science for Analytical Chemistry, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian 116023, China. [email protected]
Pages 339-348 | Published online: 09 Jan 2014

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