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Overexpressed human survival motor neurone isoforms, SMNDeltaexon7 and SMN+exon7, both form intranuclear gems but

E Dodds1, M G Dunckley, R G Roberts

  • 1Division of Medical and Molecular Genetics, GKT School of Medicine, Guy's Hospital, London SE1 9RT, UK.

FEBS Letters
|April 27, 2001
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