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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 U04227-U04232
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Chukwuocha, R.U., Hartman, A.B. & Feeney, A.J. Sequences of four new members of the V H7183 gene family in BALB/c mice. Immunogenetics 40, 76–78 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00163968
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