Virtually Identical Enhancers Containing a Segment of Homology to Murine 3′IgH-E(hs1,2) Lie Downstream of Human Ig Cα1 and Cα2 Genes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 159, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 1310-1318

  Chen, Chaoqun ^a   Birshtein, Barbara K ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ENHANCER REGION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOLOGY; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLACENTA; RAT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ENHANCER ELEMENTS (GENETICS); EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CONSTANT REGIONS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; INTRONS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLACENTA; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

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