Immunoglobulin V(H) genes of high-grade mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas show a high load of somatic mutations and evidence of antigen-dependent affinity maturation

Laboratory Investigation

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 277-287

  Hallas, Cora ^a   Greiner, Axel ^a   Peters, Katharina ^a   Müller Hermelink, Hans Konrad ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIGEN SPECIFICITY; ARTICLE; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER GRADING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GERMINAL CENTER; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HELICOBACTER PYLORI; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MUCOSA ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE LYMPHOMA; MUTATION RATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH LYMPHOMA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYSIOLOGY; STOMACH TUMOR;

TUMOR ANTIGEN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIBODY AFFINITY; ANTIGENS, NEOPLASM; BASE SEQUENCE; BURKITT LYMPHOMA; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOMA, MUCOSA-ASSOCIATED LYMPHOID TISSUE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031594345     PISSN: 00236837     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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