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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession number M96942.
Correspondence to: L. Chouchane.
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Chouchane, L., Brown, T.J. & Kindt, T.J. Structure and expression of a nonpolymorphic rabbit class II gene with homology to HLA-DOB . Immunogenetics 38, 64–66 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00216394
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