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Comp Funct Genomics. 2003 December; 4(6): 635–646.
doi: 10.1002/cfg.335.
PMCID: PMC2447302
Copyright © 2003 Hindawi Publishing Corporation.
The Characteristics of Human Genes: Analysis of Human Chromosome 22
Ian Dunham,corresponding author David M. Beare, and John E. Collins
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK,
Ian Dunham, Email: id1/at/sanger.ac.uk.
corresponding authorCorresponding author.
Received August 15, 2003; Revised September 4, 2003; Accepted September 8, 2003.
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