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Everett, E.T., Pablos, J.L., Harris, S.E. et al. The tight-skin (Tsk) mutation is closely linked to B2m on mouse Chromosome 2. Mammalian Genome 5, 55–57 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00360571
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