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HGMD is very grateful to the following for their financial support :

This database is maintained by D.N. Cooper, E.V. Ball, P.D. Stenson, A.D. Phillips, M.E Mort and J.A. Shiel with the assistance of N.S.T. Thomas & S. Abeysinghe. We gratefully acknowledge the support of:

HGMD enters into collaboration with Celera Genomics. Please see our What's New page for the full text of the announcement.

If you refer to HGMD in any publication, please cite Stenson et al (2003), The Human Gene Mutation Database (HGMD®): 2003 Update. Hum Mutat (2003) 21:577-581. Articles describing the HGMD facility have also appeared in Trends Genet (1997) 13:121-122, Nucleic Acids Res (1998) 26: 285-287 and Hum Mutat (2000) 15: 45-51.

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