Recombination-based mechanisms for somatic hypermutation

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 67-76

  Kong, Qingzhong ^a   Harris, Reuben S ^b   Maizels, Nancy ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

DNA REPAIR; DNA TEMPLATE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENE CONVERSION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; DNA REPLICATION; GENE CONVERSION; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, IMMUNOLOGICAL; MUTATION; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0031944788     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01430.x     Document Type: Review

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