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H Williams1, C M Richards, B A Konfortov
1Department of Immunology, Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research, Cambridge Research Station, Babraham, UK.
Animal Genetics
|August 1, 1993
Abstract:
In a study of 35 horse-mouse heterohybridoma cell lines, synteny in the horse was found between LDHB, PEPB and IGF1 and between NP, MPI and IDH2. A synteny between ADA and PEPC was also indicated. The loci for horse immunoglobulin light chain (IgL) genes and for LDHA were independent.
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