ubiquilin 2

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ubiquilin 2

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amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
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…which encodes a protein called ubiquilin 2. Ubiquilin 2 plays an important role in recycling damaged proteins from neurons in the spinal cord and neurons in the cortex and hippocampus of the brain. Similar to mutations in FUS/TLS and TDP43, mutations in UBQLN2 result in the accumulation of proteins in…
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…which encodes a protein called ubiquilin 2. Ubiquilin 2 plays an important role in recycling damaged proteins from neurons in the spinal cord and neurons in the cortex and hippocampus of the brain. Similar to mutations in FUS/TLS and TDP43, mutations in UBQLN2 result in the accumulation of proteins in…
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