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Origin of Human Chromosome 21 and its Consequences: a 50-million-year-old Story

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Origin of Human Chromosome 21 and its Consequences: a 50-million-year-old Story. Chromosome Res 6, 263–268 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009262622325

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