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In Vivo Functional Study of Disease-associated Rare Human Variants Using Drosophila
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Studying ultra-rare variants in STX1A uncovers a novel neurodevelopmental disorder
Esmeralda Villavicencio Gonzalez1,2, Ryan S Dhindsa3,4
1Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. Esmeralda.villavicencio@bcm.edu.
European Journal of Human Genetics : EJHG
|April 7, 2023
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