Base-specific sequences that bias somatic hypermutation deduced by analysis of out-of-frame human IgV(H) genes

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 160, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 2360-2364

  Dunn Walters, Deborah K ^a   Dogan, Ahmet ^b   Boursier, Laurent ^a   MacDonald, Connie M ^a   Spencer, Jo ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; IMMUNOGENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOMATIC MUTATION;

ADENINE; BASE COMPOSITION; CYTOSINE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GUANINE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; READING FRAMES; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0032031498     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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