Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages e1-e3 , January 2009

Weak linkage in androgen receptor: identification of mutation-prone points

  • Viroj Wiwanitkit, M.D.

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    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Viroj Wiwanitkit, M.D., Department of Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand 10330 (FAX: 662-256 4136).

Received 6 June 2007 ,Revised 26 June 2007 ,Accepted 26 June 2007.

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PII: S0015-0282(07)01445-8

doi: 10.1016/j.fertnstert.2007.06.089

Fertility and Sterility
Volume 91, Issue 1 , Pages e1-e3 , January 2009

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