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Rosa M Marion1, Aviv Regev, Eran Segal

  • 1Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, 600 16th Street, Genentech Hall, Room GH-S472D, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143-2240, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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