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The nucleotide sequences reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank and have been assigned the accession numbers U40718 and U40719.
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Heljasvaara, R., Laajala, P., Soininen, T. et al. Rat S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase gene family: Intronic genes are alleles. Mammalian Genome 7, 776–779 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900232
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