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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession number M30694.
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Sutton, V.R., Knowles, R.W. An aberrantDRB4 null gene transcript is found that could encode a novel HLA-DR chain. Immunogenetics 31, 112–117 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00661221
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