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Closing the door on toxic proteins – new clues in understanding a genetic form of MND

5 July 201720 May 2020

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe defects in the C9orf72 gene are known to cause motor neurone disease, but researchers don’t understand why. Defective copies of this gene are passed

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