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Original Article

Use of capillary electrophoresis for accurate determination of CAG repeats causing Huntington disease. An oligonucleotide design avoiding shadow bands

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Pages 577-584 | Received 11 Dec 2007, Accepted 11 Jan 2008, Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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