Nature Medicine
3, 718 - 719 (1997)
doi:10.1038/nm0797-718
Molecular time machinesWilliam J. SchwartzDepartment of Neurology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA 01655, USA The first gene involved in mammalian circadian timekeeping has been identified. REFERENCES
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