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Gillis, J.M. Understanding dystrophinopathies: an inventory of the structural and functional consequences of the absence of dystrophin in muscles of the mdx mouse. J Muscle Res Cell Motil 20, 605–625 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005545325254
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