Isolation of a cDNA clone encoding the leader peptide of prion protein and expression of the homologous gene in various tissues.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on September 01, 1986

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N K Robakis, P R Sawh, G C Wolfe, R Rubenstein, R I Carp, M A Innis

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