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Science 30 November 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5855, p. 1395
DOI: 10.1126/science.1151370
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Perspectives

GENETICS:
beta-Defensin Repertoire Expands

Julia R. Dorin and Ian J. Jackson

How does a peptide involved in fighting microbial infections also control hair color in mammals?

The authors are in the MRC Human Genetics Unit, Western General Hospital, Crewe Road, Edinburgh EH4 2XU, UK. E-mail: ian.jackson{at}hgu.mrc.ac.uk

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