Somatic hypermutation of immunoglobulin variable region genes: Focus on follicular lymphoma and multiple myeloma

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 281-292

  Kosmas, Christos ^a   Stamatopoulos, Kostas ^a   Papadaki, Theodora ^b   Belessi, Chrysoula ^a   Yataganas, Xenophon ^a   Anagnostou, Dimitra ^b   Loukopoulos, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b EVANGELISMOS HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTIGEN BINDING; B LYMPHOCYTE; BINDING AFFINITY; CELL CLONE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOLLICULAR LYMPHOMA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GERM LINE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOMATIC MUTATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; LYMPHOMA, FOLLICULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; MUTATION;

EID: 0031897512     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01448.x     Document Type: Review

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