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Fujii, H., Kakinuma, M., Yoshiki, T. et al. Polymorphism of the class II gene of rat major histocompatibility complex, RT1: partial sequence comparison of the first domain of the RT1.Bβ 1 alleles. Immunogenetics 33, 399–403 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00216701
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