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The Flowering of Clinical Genetics

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All manners of doors are opened in clinical cytogenetics. Suddenly investigations on flower and clinical services are set up when it becomes apparent that several conditions are shown to be chromosomal in origin. Syndromes from the past are recognised as being chromosomal and strange observations within families finally explained.

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Wall, W.J. (2016). The Flowering of Clinical Genetics. In: The Search for Human Chromosomes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26336-6_8

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