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Long CAG/CTG repeats in mice

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  1. Department of Therapeutic Radiology, 303 Hunter Radiation Bldg, Yale School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., 06510, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Bonnie L. King & Barry M. Kacinski

  2. Department of Genetics, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St., 06510, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    Giorgio Sirugo & Kenneth K. Kidd

  3. Department of Genetics, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10900 Euclid Ave., 44106-4955, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

    Joseph H. Nadeau

  4. Center for Genome Research, Whitehead Institute, 9 Cambridge Center, 02142, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Thomas J. Hudson

  5. Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, 1650 Cedar Ave., H36 1A4, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Thomas J. Hudson

  6. Neurogenetics Unit, Karolinska Hospital L8:00, Box 17176, Stockholm, Sweden

    Martin Schalling

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King, B.L., Sirugo, G., Nadeau, J.H. et al. Long CAG/CTG repeats in mice. Mammalian Genome 9, 392–393 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900778

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