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Zheng, JH., Takahashi, M. & Nonaka, M. Tissue-specific RNA processing for the complement C4 gene transcript in the H-2 k mouse strain. Immunogenetics 37, 390–393 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00216805
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