Sequence anomalies in the Cag7 gene of the Helicobacter pylori pathogenicity island.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on June 08, 1999

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G Liu1, T K McDaniel, S Falkow, S Karlin

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1: Department of Mathematics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2125, USA.

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