Genetics Abstracts

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Genetics Abstracts is a database produced by CSA Illumina. It includes abstracts from articles from 954 peer-reviewed scientific journals [1] in the field of genetics published since 1982. [2] The database is updated monthly, with approximately 1600 new records added. [2] As of October 2009, it contains over 535,623 records. [2]

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References

  1. "Serials Source List for Genetics Abstracts" . Retrieved 2009-10-28.
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