Evidence for somatic mutation and affinity maturation of diabetes associated human autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase

Journal of Autoimmunity

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 371-377

  Jury, Karin M ^a   Loeffler, Daniela ^a   Eiermann, Thomas H ^b   Ziegler, Brigitte ^c   Boehm, Bernhard O ^a   Richter, Wiltrud ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^c Institut fur Diabetes 'Gerhardt Katsch'   (Germany)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies; Glutamate decarboxylase; Immunoglobin variable genes; Type 1 IDDM

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE;

AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0030175503     PISSN: 08968411     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1996.0050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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