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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 M55244 (MhcPatr-A5) and M55245 (MhcPatr-A6).
Correspondence to: D. I. Watkins.
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Chen, Z.W., Hughes, A.L., Ghim, S.H. et al. Two more chimpanzee Patr-A locus alleles related to the HLA-A1/A2/A11 family. Immunogenetics 38, 238–240 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00211524
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