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The nucleotide sequence data reported in this paper have been submitted to the GenBank nucleotide sequence database and have been assigned the accession numbers L25644-25646.
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Gustafsson, K., Andersson, L. Structure and polymorphism of horse MHC class II DRB genes: convergent evolution in the antigen binding site. Immunogenetics 39, 355–358 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00189233
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