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Allele-specific PCR assays for the tub and cpe fat mutations

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Maddatu, T., Naggert, J.K. Allele-specific PCR assays for the tub and cpe fat mutations. Mammalian Genome 8, 857–858 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900594

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