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. 1998 Mar;62(3):509–513. doi: 10.1086/301773

CAS, the human homologue of the yeast chromosome-segregation gene CSE1, in proliferation, apoptosis, and cancer.

U Brinkmann 1
PMCID: PMC1376967  PMID: 9497270

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