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. 2003 Dec;4(6):635–646. doi: 10.1002/cfg.335

The Characteristics of Human Genes: Analysis of Human Chromosome 22

Ian Dunham 1,✉, David M Beare 1, John E Collins 1
PMCID: PMC2447302  PMID: 18629020

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