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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the EMBL nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession number Z29533
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Wright, H., Redmond, J., Wright, F. et al. The nucleotide sequence of the sheep MHC class II DNA gene. Immunogenetics 41, 131–133 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00182324
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