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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession number X62489.
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Matsumoto, Ki., Ishihara, N., Ando, A. et al. Extracellular matrix protein tenascin-like gene found in human MHC class III region. Immunogenetics 36, 400–403 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00218048
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