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Polymorphic segmental duplications at 8p23.1 challenge the determination of individual defensin gene repertoires and the assembly of a contiguous human reference sequence

Stefan Taudien*, Petra Galgoczy, Klaus Huse, Kathrin Reichwald, Markus Schilhabel, Karol Szafranski, Atsushi Shimizu, Shuichi Asakawa, Adam Frankish, Ivan F Loncarevic, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Roman Siddiqui and Matthias Platzer

BMC Genomics 2004, 5:92 doi:10.1186/1471-2164-5-92

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Haplotyping and copy number estimation of the highly polymorphic human beta-defensin locus on 8p23 by 454 amplicon sequencing

Stefan Taudien, Marco Groth, Klaus Huse, Andreas Petzold, Karol Szafranski, Jochen Hampe, Philip Rosenstiel, Stefan Schreiber, Matthias Platzer BMC Genomics 2010, 11:252 (19 April 2010)

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Dynamic instability of the major urinary protein gene family revealed by genomic and phenotypic comparisons between C57 and 129 strain mice

Jonathan M Mudge, Stuart D Armstrong, Karen McLaren, Robert J Beynon, Jane L Hurst, Christine Nicholson, Duncan H Robertson, Laurens G Wilming, Jennifer L Harrow Genome Biology 2008, 9:R91 (28 May 2008)

Targeted sequencing, manual genome annotation, phylogenetic analysis and mass spectrometry were used to characterise major urinary proteins (MUPs) and the Mup clusters of two strains of inbred mice.

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Inter-population variability of DEFA3 gene absence: correlation with haplotype structure and population variability

Ester Ballana, Juan González, Nina Bosch, Xavier Estivill BMC Genomics 2007, 8:14 (10 January 2007)

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Contribution of alpha- and beta-defensins to lung function decline and infection in smokers: an association study

Alison M Wallace, Jian-Qing He, Kelly M Burkett, Jian Ruan, John E Connett, Nicholas R Anthonisen, Peter D Paré, Andrew J Sandford Respiratory Research 2006, 7:76 (15 May 2006)