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The central region of the major histocompatibility complex contains a sequence with similarity to thepol gene of Moloney retroviruses

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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 U43654 (57X)

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Gaudieri, S., Kulski, J.K. & Dawkins, R.L. The central region of the major histocompatibility complex contains a sequence with similarity to thepol gene of Moloney retroviruses. Immunogenetics 44, 157–158 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02660066

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