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Takeshi Chujo1, Kazuhito Tomizawa2

  • 1Department of Molecular Physiology, Faculty of Life Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto 860-8556, Japan tchujo@kumamoto-u.ac.jp.

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MELASmitoTALENmitochondrial diseasetRNA modificationtRNA modopathy

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