Two waves of recombinase gene expression in developing thymocytes.

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Published in J Exp Med on April 01, 1994

Authors

A Wilson1, W Held, H R MacDonald

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1: Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Lausanne Branch, Epalinges, Switzerland.

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