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Molecular genetics of mouse serum amyloid P component (SAP): cloning and gene mapping

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  1. Division of Immunology, Children's Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Alexander S. Whitehead & Miriam Rits

  2. Center for Blood Research, and Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    James Michaelson

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Whitehead, A.S., Rits, M. & Michaelson, J. Molecular genetics of mouse serum amyloid P component (SAP): cloning and gene mapping. Immunogenetics 28, 388–390 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00364241

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