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The underappreciated role of the “unknown” MXRA7 gene in diseases

Yiqiang Wang1* ,  Ying Shen2
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1 Wisdom Lake Academy of Pharmacy, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
2 Institute of Blood and Marrow Transplantation, The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
GPD, 025380068 https://doi.org/10.36922/GPD025380068
Received: 17 September 2025 | Accepted: 23 September 2025 | Published online: 15 October 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
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The authors were partially supported by the National Science Foundation of China (81271050, 82300281).
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Yiqiang Wang is an Editorial Board Member of this journal, and declared that he has no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have influenced the work reported in this paper. The other author declares no conflict of interest.
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