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Combined DNA-RNA Fluorescent In situ Hybridization (FISH) to Study X Chromosome Inactivation in Differentiated Female Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
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Non-inactivation of an x-chromosome locus in man

L J Shapiro, T Mohandas, R Weiss

    Science (New York, N.Y.)
    |June 15, 1979
    PubMed

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