The human T-cell receptor gamma variable pseudogene V10 is a distinctive marker of human speciation

Immunogenetics

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 196-203

  Zhang, Xiao Min ^a,e   Cathala, Guy ^b   Soua, Zohra ^c   Lefranc, Marie Paule ^a   Huck, Sylvie ^a,d  

^a CNRS and University Montpellier II   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE DE MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUSSE   (Tunisia)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e Department of Radiation Medicine   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GAMMA CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; APE; ARTICLE; CHIMPANZEE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE STRUCTURE; GORILLA; HUMAN; INTRON; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; POINT MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR GENE; T LYMPHOCYTE SUBPOPULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EVOLUTION; GENETIC MARKERS; GORILLA GORILLA; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; POINT MUTATION; PONGO PYGMAEUS; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, GAMMA-DELTA; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030053729     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050046     Document Type: Article

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