The FSHD-associated repeat, D4Z4, is a member of a dispersed family of homeobox-containing repeats, subsets of which are clustered on the short arms of the acrocentric chromosomes.

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Published in Genomics on August 10, 1995

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R Lyle1, T J Wright, L N Clark, J E Hewitt

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1: School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.

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