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Hi-C: A Method to Study the Three-dimensional Architecture of Genomes.
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[Quantitative assessment of human chromosomal polymorphism with regard to paracentromeric heterochromatin]

G P Lelikova, V A Beniush, T G Tsvetkova

    Genetika
    |January 1, 1977
    PubMed

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