Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin genes is independent of the Bloom's syndrome DNA helicase

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 248-254

  Sack, S Z ^a   Liu, Y ^a   German, J ^b   Green, N S ^a,c  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NEW YORK BLOOD CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloom's syndrome; Immunoglobulin; RecQ; Somatic mutation; Variable region

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOM SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CHROMOSOME BREAKAGE; DNA REPAIR; DNA REPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GERM LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CHILD; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPAIR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POINT MUTATION;

EID: 0031802496     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1998.00575.x     Document Type: Article

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