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Roger G Whittaker1, Patrick F Chinnery2, James A L Miller2
1From the Institute of Neuroscience (R.G.W.), The Medical School, Newcastle University; and the Wellcome Trust Centre for Mitochondrial Research (P.F.C., J.A.L.M.), Institute of Genetic Medicine, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Roger.whittaker@ncl.ac.uk.
Neurology
|June 25, 2014
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