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. 1977 Dec;14(6):389–398. doi: 10.1136/jmg.14.6.389

Mendelian inheritance or transmissible agent? The lesson Kuru and the Australia antigen.

P S Harper
PMCID: PMC1013633  PMID: 146739

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