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Dobson, C.M. (2002). The Mechanism of Amyloid Formation and Its Links to Human Disease and Biological Evolution. In: Self-Assembling Peptide Systems in Biology, Medicine and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46890-5_5
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