Placenta
Volume 31 , Pages S27-S32 , March 2010

Review: Sex Chromosome Evolution and the Expression of Sex-Specific Genes in the Placenta

  • J.A.M. Graves

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,Accepted 23 December 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.placenta.2009.12.029

Placenta
Volume 31 , Pages S27-S32 , March 2010

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