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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the EMBL nucleotide database and have been assigned the accession numbers: Q4a12, X62324, Q4a13, X62329; Q4a21, X62326; Q4a23, X62327; T48a2, 62325; T48a3, X62328; T48a5, X62330.
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Hinkanen, A.E., Määttä, J., Qin, YF. et al. Novel Tcr Tcra-V and-J transcripts expressed in rat myelin-specific T-cell lines. Immunogenetics 37, 235–238 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00191892
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