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Chemical Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Metabolome Analysis of Urine by Capillary Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry

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Kuhara, T. (2005). Chemical Diagnosis of Inborn Errors of Metabolism and Metabolome Analysis of Urine by Capillary Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry. In: Tomita, M., Nishioka, T. (eds) Metabolomics. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/4-431-28055-3_12

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