Monitoring and interpreting the intrinsic features of somatic hypermutation

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 107-116

  Neuberger, Michael S ^a   Ehrenstein, Michael R ^a   Klix, Norman ^a   Jolly, Christopher J ^a   Yélamos, José ^a   Rada, Cristina ^a   Milstein, César ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; DATA BASE; DEMETHYLATION; ENHANCER REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE TARGETING; GERMINAL CENTER; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MUTATION;

EID: 0031920157     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01434.x     Document Type: Article

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