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Research Articles

De novo structure prediction of meteorin and meteorin-like protein for identification of domains, functional receptor binding regions, and their high-risk missense variants

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Pages 4522-4536 | Received 07 Mar 2023, Accepted 29 May 2023, Published online: 08 Jun 2023

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