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. 1997 May;60(5):1251–1256.

Atypical Friedreich ataxia caused by compound heterozygosity for a novel missense mutation and the GAA triplet-repeat expansion.

S I Bidichandani, T Ashizawa, P I Patel
PMCID: PMC1712428  PMID: 9150176

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