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Linkage data of the four gene markers Pi, Gm, GLO, and HLA exclude Gm and Pi gene assignment to the short arm of chromosome 6. The findings, however, do not disprove the following gene order: HLA-GLO-centromere-Gm-Pi.
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Bender, K., Müller, C.R., Schmidt, A. et al. Linkage studies on the human Pi, Gm, GLO, and HLA genes. Hum Genet 49, 159–166 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00277637
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