The human immunoglobulin VH gene repertoire is genetically controlled and unaltered by chronic autoimmune stimulation

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 98, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 2794-2800

  Kohsaka, Hitoshi ^a   Carson, Dennis A ^b   Rassenti, Laura Z ^b   Ollier, William E R ^c   Chen, Pojen P ^b   Kipps, Thomas J ^b   Miyasaka, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

B cell; ELISA; Monozygotic twins; PCR; Rheumatoid arthritis

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; MALE; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS;

ADULT; AGED; ARTHRITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; DNA PROBES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 0030479971     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI119106     Document Type: Article

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