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Cbx-rs2 (M31), a mouse homolog of the Drosophila Heterochromatin protein 1 gene, maps to distal Chromosome 11 and is nonallelic to Om

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Feil, R., Baldacci, P.A., Tarttelin, E. et al. Cbx-rs2 (M31), a mouse homolog of the Drosophila Heterochromatin protein 1 gene, maps to distal Chromosome 11 and is nonallelic to Om . Mammalian Genome 6, 469–471 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00360656

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