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Investigating the Spreading and Toxicity of Prion-like Proteins Using the Metazoan Model Organism C. elegans
Published on: January 8, 2015
Gene symbol: SPAST (SPG4). Disease: Spastic paraparesis. Accession #Hm0552
C Depienne1, C Tallaksen, J Y Lephay
1INSERM U679, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, 75013 Paris, France. depienne@ccr.jussieu.fr
Human Genetics
|February 14, 2007
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