A new apparently functional IGVK gene (VkLa) present in some individuals only

Immunogenetics

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 40-46

  Juul, Lars ^a   Hougs, Lotte ^a   Barington, Torben ^a  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Antibody repertoire; Genes; Human; Immunoglobulin; Kappa light chain

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; DNA SEQUENCE; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INTRON; MOLECULAR CLONING; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; START CODON; TATA BOX;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 2; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DNA; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY;

EID: 0031863856     PISSN: 00937711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002510050398     Document Type: Article

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