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Bourgeois, P., Stoetzel, C., Bolcato-Bellemin, A.L. et al. The human H-twist gene is located at 7p21 and encodes a B-HLH protein that is 96% similar to its murine M-twist counterpart. Mammalian Genome 7, 915–917 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900269
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