Striking similarities between the regulatory mechanisms governing yeast mating-type genes and mammalian major histocompatibility complex genes.

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Published in Mol Cell Biol on August 01, 1991

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J D Weissman1, D S Singer

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1: Experimental Immunology Branch, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland 20892.

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