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Rudnik-Schöneborn, S., Eggermann, T., Kress, W. et al. Clinical utility gene card for: Proximal spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) – update 2015. Eur J Hum Genet 23, 1–3 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejhg.2015.90
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