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Isolation, sequencing, and expression analysis of a bovine apolipoprotein E (APOE) cDNA and chromosomal localization of the APOE locus

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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to EMBL Data Library and have been assigned the accession number: X64839 Bos taurus mRNA for apoprotein E.

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Brzozowska, A., Fries, R., Womack, J.E. et al. Isolation, sequencing, and expression analysis of a bovine apolipoprotein E (APOE) cDNA and chromosomal localization of the APOE locus. Mammalian Genome 4, 53–57 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00364665

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