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Amyloid
The Journal of Protein Folding Disorders
Volume 15, 2008 - Issue 4
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Letter to the Editor

Additional evidence that the fibril amyloid-related proteins share local regions of amino acid sequence similarity

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Pages 269-271 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009

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