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Genomic organization of the human integrin β4 gene

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  1. Laboratory of Molecular and Cell Biology, Istituto Dermopatico dell’Immacolata, Via dei Monti di Creta 104, 00167, Rome, Italy

    Silvia Iacovacci, Giovanna Zambruno & Marina D’Alessio

  2. U 385 INSERM, Faculté de Médecine, 06107, Nice Cedex 2, France

    Laurent Gagnoux-Palacios & Guerrino Meneguzzi

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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to GenBank and have been assigned the accession number Y11107.

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Iacovacci, S., Gagnoux-Palacios, L., Zambruno, G. et al. Genomic organization of the human integrin β4 gene. Mammalian Genome 8, 448–450 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900467

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