An Alternative, Non-intrauterine Hypothesis, Based on Maternal Mitochondrial Oocyte Inheritance, to Explain Inconsistent Findings of Birth Weight on (breast) Cancer Risk

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Journal Br J Cancer

Specialty Oncology

Date 2003 May 29

PMID 12772000

Citations 3

Authors

P A H van Noord

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