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The human ortholog of rhesus mannose-binding protein-A gene is an expressed pseudogene that localizes to Chromosome 10

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  1. Department of Pathology, K726, Boston University School of Medicine, 80 East Concord Street, 02118, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Ning Guo, Tirsit Mogues & Kedarnath N. Sastry

  2. Department of Pathology, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Stanislawa Weremowicz

  3. Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, 02115, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    Cynthia C. Morton

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The sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to Genbank and have been assigned the accession number AF019382.

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Guo, N., Mogues, T., Weremowicz, S. et al. The human ortholog of rhesus mannose-binding protein-A gene is an expressed pseudogene that localizes to Chromosome 10. Mammalian Genome 9, 246–249 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003359900735

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