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  1. Dipartimento di Genetica e Biologia Molecolare, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza”, Istituto Pasteur, Fondazione Cenci Bolognetti, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185, Roma, Italy

    Sergio Pimpinelli

  2. Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Box 351800, Seattle, WA, 98195, USA

    Barbara T. Wakimoto

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Pimpinelli, S., Wakimoto, B.T. Expanding the Boundaries of Heterochromatin. Genetica 117, 111–116 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1022995029818

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