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Fibre-fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Unravels Apparently Seven DAZ Genes or Pseudogenes Clustered Within a Y-chromosome Region Frequently Deleted in Azoospermic Males. Chromosome Res 6, 481–486 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009256613348
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