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K Y Kwan1, J C Wang

  • 1Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University, 7 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|May 2, 2001
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