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A novel CLN2/TPP1 mutation in a Chinese patient with late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis

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This work was supported in part by grants from the National Nature Science Foundation of China (no 30870876) and the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation (no 2008B030301250).

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Yu-Liang Wang and Zhi-Yong Zeng have contributed equally to this research.

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Wang, YL., Zeng, ZY., Song, XW. et al. A novel CLN2/TPP1 mutation in a Chinese patient with late infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis. Neurogenetics 12, 93–95 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10048-010-0258-1

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