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. 1967 May;57(5):1345–1349. doi: 10.1073/pnas.57.5.1345

The paucity of species-specific amino acid residues in the variable regions of human and mouse Bence-Jones proteins and its evolutionary and genetic implications.

E A Kabat
PMCID: PMC224478  PMID: 5231739

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