Regulation of the Myeloid-Cell-Expressed Human gp91-phox Gene As Studied by Transfer of Yeast Artificial Chromosome Clones into Embryonic Stem Cells: Suppression of a Variegated Cellular Pattern of Expression Requires a Full Complement of Distant cis Elements

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