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Genomic organization and expression of mouse thymic shared antigen-1 (TSA-1): evidence for a processed pseudogene

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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this manuscript have been submitted to the EMBL/Genbank sequence databases and have been assigned the accession numbers U47737 and U47850

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Classon, B.J., Coverdale, L. Genomic organization and expression of mouse thymic shared antigen-1 (TSA-1): evidence for a processed pseudogene. Immunogenetics 44, 222–226 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02602589

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