Identification of immunoglobulin lambda isotype gene rearrangements by Southern blot analysis

Leukemia

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1834-1839

  Tumkaya T ^a   Beishuizen, A ^a   Wolvers Tettero, I L M ^a   Van Dongen, J J M ^a,b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

DNA probes; Ig isotypes; Immunoglobulin genes; Southern blot analysis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS;

ARTICLE; DNA PROBE; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUTHERN BLOTTING;

EID: 0029821202     PISSN: 08876924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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