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Kenza Lahkim Bennani-Belhaj1, Géraldine Buhagiar-Labarchède, Nada Jmari

  • 1Institut Curie, Centre de Recherche, Centre Universitaire, Bât. 110, 91405 Orsay, France.

Journal of Nucleic Acids
|October 12, 2010
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