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. 1999 Feb;64(2):339–345. doi: 10.1086/302269

Protein fate in neurodegenerative proteinopathies: polyglutamine diseases join the (mis)fold.

H L Paulson 1
PMCID: PMC1377742  PMID: 9973270

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