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Mapping of Members of the Low-copy-number Repetitive DNA Sequence Family chAB4 within the p Arms of Human Acrocentric Chromosomes: Characterization of Robertsonian Translocations

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Mapping of Members of the Low-copy-number Repetitive DNA Sequence Family chAB4 within the p Arms of Human Acrocentric Chromosomes: Characterization of Robertsonian Translocations. Chromosome Res 6, 429–435 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1009287223826

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