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This study was Funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC grants 81170964 and 81470743). We owe our special thanks to Prof. Tao Cai for his encouragement and support.
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Li-Zheng Wu and Xin-Yue Xu contributed equally to this work.
[Wu L.-Z., Xu X.-Y., Liu Y.-F., Ge X. and Wang X.-J. 2015 Expansion of polyalanine tracts in the QA domain may play a critical role in the clavicular development of cleidocranial dysplasia. J. Genet. 94, xx–xx]
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WU, LZ., XU, XY., LIU, YF. et al. Expansion of polyalanine tracts in the QA domain may play a critical role in the clavicular development of cleidocranial dysplasia. J Genet 94, 551–553 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-015-0551-8
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