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. 1993 Oct;53(4):964–965.

An A-to-G transition at nucleotide pair 11084 in the ND4 gene may be an mtDNA polymorphism.

R Sakuta, Y Goto, I Nonaka, S Horai
PMCID: PMC1682373  PMID: 8213827

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