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Research Article

Inactivation of a Transfected Gene in Human Fibroblasts Can Occur by Deletion, Amplification, Phenotypic Switching, or Methylation

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Pages 1459-1464 | Received 17 Oct 1986, Accepted 07 Jan 1987, Published online: 31 Mar 2023

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