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Molecular cloning of the Ig-α subunit of the human B-cell antigen receptor complex

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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession number M74721.

Address correspondence and offprint requests to: M. Reth.

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Flaswinkel, H., Reth, M. Molecular cloning of the Ig-α subunit of the human B-cell antigen receptor complex. Immunogenetics 36, 266–269 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00215058

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