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C4B gene polymorphisms among African and African-American HLA-Bw42-DRw18 haplotypes

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    Patricia A. Fraser, Zuheir L. Awdeh, Paul Ronco, Susan Simon, Barbara Moore, Dolores Fici, Deborah Marcus-Bagley, Edmond J. Yunis & Chester A. Alper

  2. Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, MA, USA

    Patricia A. Fraser

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Fraser, P.A., Awdeh, Z.L., Ronco, P. et al. C4B gene polymorphisms among African and African-American HLA-Bw42-DRw18 haplotypes. Immunogenetics 34, 52–56 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00212312

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