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Utility of Dissociated Intrinsic Hand Muscle Atrophy in the Diagnosis of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
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The value of testing for ATXN2 intermediate repeat expansions in routine clinical practice for amyotrophic lateral
Kristiana Salmon1,2, Jay P Ross3,4, Vanessa Bertone5,3
1Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. Kristiana.salmon@mcgill.ca.
European Journal of Human Genetics : EJHG
|July 21, 2022
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