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The Epidemiology of Paget’s Disease; Clues to the Cause?

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The Molecular Biology of Paget’s Disease

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It is tempting in the era of molecular biology to believe that this is the discipline that alone will provide all the answers to a diseasesuch as Paget’s disease of bone. This may indeed be true, but what about the questions? Perhaps the technique is so all-embracing that soon questions will not be necessary, that the questions will follow the answers, but I somehow doubt it.

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Anderson, D.C. (1996). The Epidemiology of Paget’s Disease; Clues to the Cause?. In: The Molecular Biology of Paget’s Disease. Medical Intelligence Unit. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-22505-9_2

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