One-megabase sequence analysis of the human immunoglobulin λ gene locus

Genome Research

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 250-261

  Kawasaki, Kazuhiko ^a   Minoshima, Shinsei ^a   Nakato, Eriko ^a   Shibuya, Kazunori ^a   Shintani, Ai ^a   Schmeits, James L ^a   Wang, Jun ^a   Shimizu, Nobuyoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN LAMBDA CHAIN;

ARTICLE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030903287     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.7.3.250     Document Type: Article

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