Sequence of the human immunoglobulin diversity (D) segment locus: A systematic analysis provides no evidence for the use of DIR segments, inverted D segments, 'Minor' D segments or D-D recombination

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 270, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 587-597

  Corbett, Simon J ^a   Tomlinson, Ian M ^a   Sonnhammer, Erik L L ^b   Buck, David ^b   Winter, Greg ^a,c  

^a MRC CENTRE FOR PROTEIN ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^b WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

D segment; Diversity; Germline; Immunoglobulin; Recombination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME 14Q; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031586221     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1141     Document Type: Article

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