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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank database and have been assigned the accession numbers U16744, U16745, and U16746
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Bachl, J., Defranoux, N. & Wabl, M. Immunoglobulin variable gene segment V H 81X of the mouse is embedded in L1 transposon sequences. Immunogenetics 41, 172 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00182336
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