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Cytogenetic and enzyme studies of a child trisomic for 6p and monosomic for band 2p25 are reported. A tentative assignment of the ACP 1 gene locus to band 2p25 is suggested by a 50% decrease in red cell acid phosphatase activity.
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Junien, C., Kaplan, JC., Bernheim, A. et al. Regional assignment of red cell acid phosphatase locus to band 2p25. Hum Genet 48, 17–21 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00273269
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