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Global distribution of Fatal familial insomnia: founder or recurrent mutations

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Lee, HS., Goldfarb, L.G. Global distribution of Fatal familial insomnia: founder or recurrent mutations. Neurogenetics 9, 301–302 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10048-008-0135-3

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