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Lévi-Strauss, M., Georgatsou, E., Tosi, M. et al. Gene-specific probes demonstrate selective duplications of the C4-Slp gene in the H-2S alleles associated with a testosterone-independent expression of this isotype. Immunogenetics 21, 397–401 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00430804
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