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Rat RT1 orthologs of mouse H2-M class lb genes

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  1. Chyung-Ru Wang

    Present address: Gwen Knapp Center for Lupus and Immunology Research, Department of Pathology, University of Chicago, 924 East 57th Street, 60637-5420, Chicago, IL, USA

  2. Jonathan C. Howard

    Present address: Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Zülpicher Strasse 47, D-50674, Cologne, Germany

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  1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Departments of Microbiology and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, 76235-9050, Dallas, TX, USA

    Chyung-Ru Wang & Kirsten Fischer Lindahl

  2. Transplantation Laboratory, Klinik für Abdominal- und Transplantationschirurgie, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, D-30625, Hannover, Germany

    Doris Lambracht & Kurt Wonigeit

  3. Immunology Department, The Babraham Institute, Babraham Hall, CB2 4AT, Babraham, Cambridge, UK

    Jonathan C. Howard

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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the EMBL/GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession numbers U16025 (RT1.M3) and U18797 (H2-M3)

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Wang, CR., Lambracht, D., Wonigeit, K. et al. Rat RT1 orthologs of mouse H2-M class lb genes. Immunogenetics 42, 63–67 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00164989

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