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Original Article

Genetic Influences on the Retention of Inorganic Mercury

Hipolito M. Custodio MD Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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Raul Harari PhD Corporacion Para el Desarrollo de la Producción y el Medio Ambiente Laboral (Association for the Development of Production and the Workplace), Quito, Ecuador
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Lars Gerhardsson MD Department of Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Göteborg, Sweden
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Staffan Skerfving MD Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
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Karin Broberg DMedSci Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Pages 17-23 | Published online: 07 Aug 2010

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