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(2012) ARF. In: Schwab M (ed) Encyclopedia of Cancer, 3rd edn. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, p 265. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-16483-5_383
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Loukinov, D., Klenova, E., Lobanenkov, V. (2014). BORIS. In: Schwab, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Cancer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27841-9_691-9
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