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. 1984 Jun;81(12):3811–3815. doi: 10.1073/pnas.81.12.3811

Clustered genes for human U2 RNA.

G Westin, J Zabielski, K Hammarström, H J Monstein, C Bark, U Pettersson
PMCID: PMC345310  PMID: 6203126

Abstract

Genes for the human small nuclear RNA U2 are present within 6.2-kilobase-pair-long tandem repeats. The haploid human genome contains approximately 20 such repeats, organized in one or a few very large clusters.

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