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Authors are “Equipe Labellisée LIGUE 2018”. This work was supported by ANR (projet EpiSwitch-3’RR 2016). N.G. was supported by a grant from the “Société Française d’Hématologie”. H.I. and M.F. are supported by the University of Limoges and the “Région Nouvelle Aquitaine”. F.B. is supported by the Fondation Partenariale de l’Université de Limoges and ALURAD.
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Y.D. designed the research. N.G., H.I., and M.F. performed the research. F.B. and Y.D. analyzed the data. N.G., H.I., M.F., F.B., and Y.D. wrote the paper.
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Issaoui, H., Ghazzaui, N., Ferrad, M. et al. Class switch recombination junctions are not affected by the absence of the immunoglobulin heavy chain Eμ enhancer. Cell Mol Immunol 16, 671–673 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41423-019-0229-x
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