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  1. Tata Motors Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

    Rajiv Sharan, Abhayanchal K. Jha & S. Nath

  2. Vishnu Netralaya Hospital, Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India

    Bhibhuti Bhusan

  3. Department of Developmental Paediatrics, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India

    Beena Koshy, Kirubakaran Navamani & Samuel Philip Oommen

  4. Department of Cytogenetics, Christian Medical College Hospital, Vellore, India

    Vivi M. Srivastava

  5. Department of Pediatrics, St. John’s Medical College Hospital, Sarjapur Road, Bangalore, 560 034, India

    C. Dinakar, A. Shet, C. K. Indumathi & D. George

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Sharan, R., Jha, A.K., Bhusan, B. et al. Research Letters. Indian Pediatr 49, 675–678 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13312-012-0131-4

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