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  • 1Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Institutes of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892-0560, USA.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
|September 2, 1998
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