Direct assessment of junctional diversity in rearranged T cell receptor β chain encoding genes by combined heteroduplex and single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) analysis

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-31

  Offermans, Myriam T C ^a   Struyk, Linda ^b   De Geus, Bernard ^a,c   Breedveld, Ferdinand C ^b   Van Den Elsen, Peter J ^b   Rozing, Jan ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CDR 3 domain; combined single strand conformation polymorphism and heteroduplex analysis; double strand conformation polymorphism; nucleic acid gel electrophoresis; nucleotide sequence polymorphism; T cell heterogeneity; T cell receptor

Indexed keywords

T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE STRAND CONFORMATION POLYMORPHISM; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

EID: 0029944138     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0022-1759(95)00283-9     Document Type: Article

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