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DNA sequencing shows that the intragenic duplication within the human haptoglobin Hp2 allele was formed by a non-homologous, probably random, crossing-over within different introns of two Hp1genes, probably in an Hp1F/Hp1S heterozygote.
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Maeda, N., Yang, F., Barnett, D. et al. Duplication within the haptoglobin Hp2 gene. Nature 309, 131–135 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1038/309131a0
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