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Liu, C., Geng, Y., Miao, H. et al. G-quadruplex structures formed by human telomeric DNA and C9orf72 hexanucleotide repeats. Biophys Rev 11, 389–393 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12551-019-00545-y
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