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Siege of Leningrad Survivors Phenotyping and Biospecimen Collection.
Biopreservation and biobanking - 1 Oct 2015
Rotar Oxana P, Moguchaya Ekaterina V, Boyarinova Maria A, Alieva Asilat S, Orlov Alexander V, Vasilieva Elena Y, Yudina Victoria A, Anisimov Sergey V, Konradi Alexandra O
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BACKGROUND: Poor nutrition during the early stages of human development can lead to rare pathological conditions in adult life. The best-known and most severe historical cases of famine include the Dutch 'Hunger Winter,' the Finnish famine, the Chinese Great famine, and the siege of Leningrad. The siege of Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg) was one of the longest in history, lasting 872 days, from September 8, 1941...
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