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Chevillard, C., Reik, W., Mc Dermott, M. et al. Chromosomal localization of human homologs of the Drosophila heterochromatin protein 1 (HP1) gene. Mammalian Genome 4, 124–126 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00290438
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