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This work was supported by the following funds: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81671971, 81871641 and 81701992) and the Beijing Natural Science Foundation Program and Scientific Research Key Program of Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (KZ201810025035).
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Luo, Q., Wang, Y., Fan, D. et al. Prion Protein Expression is Correlated with Glioma Grades. Virol. Sin. 35, 490–493 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12250-020-00209-2
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