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. 1997 Jun;60(6):1548–1552. doi: 10.1016/S0002-9297(07)64251-7

Linkage disequilibrium between the spinocerebellar ataxia 3/Machado-Joseph disease mutation and two intragenic polymorphisms, one of which, X359Y, affects the stop codon.

G Stevanin, A S Lebre, C Mathieux, G Cancel, N Abbas, O Didierjean, A Dürr, Y Trottier, Y Agid, A Brice
PMCID: PMC1716136  PMID: 9199580

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