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de Cordoba Rodriguez, S., Rey-Campos, J., Dykes, D.D. et al. Coagulation factor XIII B subunit is encoded by a gene linked to the regulator of complement activation (RCA) gene cluster in man. Immunogenetics 28, 452–454 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00355378
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