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Regulation and Function of the E2A Proteins in B Cell Development

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Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation XI

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  1. University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, 0377, La Jolla, CA 92093

    Cornelis Murre

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  1. School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA

    Sudhir Gupta

  2. Department of Genetics, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA 02115, USA

    Frederick Alt

  3. Inst. Medical/Tumor Research Laboratories, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA

    Max Cooper

  4. BiozentrumAbt. Zellbiologie, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, 4056, Germany

    Fritz Melchers

  5. Center for Blood Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA

    Klaus Rajewsky

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Murre, C. (2007). Regulation and Function of the E2A Proteins in B Cell Development. In: Gupta, S., Alt, F., Cooper, M., Melchers, F., Rajewsky, K. (eds) Mechanisms of Lymphocyte Activation and Immune Regulation XI. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 596. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-46530-8_1

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