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Published online 19 August 2009 | Nature 460, 947-948 (2009) | doi:10.1038/460947a

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Mouse genetics: The check-up

Patients checking in to the German Mouse Clinic will undergo the most sophisticated medical testing in the world. But, finds Alison Abbott, the waiting list is becoming a problem.

Each and every Thursday it is the same. At 10 a.m., the conference room at the Helmholtz Centre Munich starts to fill with top consultants and clinical researchers from the university hospitals in Munich, Bonn and Heidelberg.

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