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Triple trouble: a striking new phenotype or competing genes in a family with hereditary spastic paraplegia

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  1. The National Hospital for Neurology, Neurosurgery and UCL Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London, WC1N 3BG, UK

    Viorica Chelban, David S. Lynch, Henry Houlden & Nick Wood

  2. Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, State Medical and Pharmaceutical University “Nicolae Testemitanu”, bd. Ştefan cel Mare şi Sfânt, 165, 2004, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

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Chelban, V., Lynch, D.S., Houlden, H. et al. Triple trouble: a striking new phenotype or competing genes in a family with hereditary spastic paraplegia. J Neurol 263, 1232–1233 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00415-016-8103-6

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