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C4BPAL2: a second duplication of the C4BPA gene in the human RCA gene cluster

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  1. Unidad de Immunologia, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas (CSIC), Velazquez 144, 28006, Madrid, Spain

    Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena & Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba

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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 numbers X81360, X81361, and X81362

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Pardo-Manuel de Villena, F., Rodríguez de Córdoba, S. C4BPAL2: a second duplication of the C4BPA gene in the human RCA gene cluster. Immunogenetics 41, 139–143 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00182326

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