Distribution and nucleotide biases of the somatic hypermutations in the functional kappa light chain gene of a human follicular lymphoma line

Scandinavian Journal of Immunology

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 193-201

  Wu, Hongyan ^a   Kaartinen, M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DNA SEQUENCE; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0030071459     PISSN: 03009475     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.1996.d01-27.x     Document Type: Article

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