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Chromosome abnormalities in metastatic melanoma

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    Sikha Rauth, Albert Green, Laura Bratescu & Tapas K. Das Gupta

  2. Department of Genetics, UIC, USA

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Rauth, S., Green, A., Bratescu, L. et al. Chromosome abnormalities in metastatic melanoma. In Vitro Cell Dev Biol - Animal 30, 79–84 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02631396

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