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Interleukin-1α-converting enzyme (ICE) and related cell death genes ICErel-II and ICErel-III map to the same PAC clone at band 11q22.2-22.3

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  1. Department of Medical Genetics and Centre for Molecular Medicine & Therapeutics (CMMT), University of British Columbia, 416-2125 East Mall, NCE Building, V6T 1Z4, Vancouver B.C., Canada

    Jamal Nasir, Jane L. Theilmann & Michael R. Hayden

  2. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Merck Frosst Centre for Therapeutic Research, Montreal, Canada

    John P. Vaillancourt, Neil A. Munday, Ambereen Ali & Donald W. Nicholson

  3. Department of Genetics, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

    Stephen Scherer

  4. Department of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada

    Barbara Beatty

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Nasir, J., Theilmann, J.L., Vaillancourt, J.P. et al. Interleukin-1α-converting enzyme (ICE) and related cell death genes ICErel-II and ICErel-III map to the same PAC clone at band 11q22.2-22.3. Mammalian Genome 8, 611–613 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900514

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