Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes is linked to transcription initiation

Immunity

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 57-65

  Peters, Andrew ^a   Storb, Ursula ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0030063726     PISSN: 10747613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-7613(00)80298-8     Document Type: Article

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