Cancer Letters
Volume 228, Issue 1 , Pages 43-50 , 18 October 2005

MEIS homeobox genes in neuroblastoma

Received 9 December 2004 ,Accepted 12 January 2005.

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doi: 10.1016/j.canlet.2005.01.047

Cancer Letters
Volume 228, Issue 1 , Pages 43-50 , 18 October 2005

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