Separate elements control DJ and VDJ rearrangement in a transgenic recombination substrate.

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Published in EMBO J on January 01, 1990

Authors

P Ferrier1, B Krippl, T K Blackwell, A J Furley, H Suh, A Winoto, W D Cook, L Hood, F Costantini, F W Alt

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1: Howard Hughes Medical Institute, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032.

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