Analysis of the Frequency and Pattern of Somatic Mutations Within Nonproductively Rearranged Human Variable Heavy Chain Genes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 158, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 2779-2789

  Dörner, Thomas ^a   Brezinschek, Hans Peter ^a   Brezinschek, Ruth I ^a   Foster, Sandra J ^a   Domiati Saad, Rana ^a   Lipsky, Peter E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ARTICLE; CODON; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

BASE COMPOSITION; CODON; DNA MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 0031569118     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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