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Living with Machado-Joseph disease in a small rural community of the Tagus valley

C Paúl1, I Martín, M do Rosário Silva

  • 1UnIGENe, IBMC, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Porto, Portugal. paul@icbas.up.pt

Community Genetics
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