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Liver and Biliary Tract

Common local founder effects for Wilson's disease and hereditary hemochromatosis; mutation studies of a large family

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Pages 1014-1020 | Received 23 May 2012, Accepted 12 Jun 2012, Published online: 07 Jul 2012

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