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Application in Diagnostics of Clinical Oncology

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Horlings, H.M., Van de Vijver, M. (2008). Clinical Genomics in Oncology. In: Cheng, L., Zhang, D.Y. (eds) Molecular Genetic Pathology. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-405-6_8

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