Frequent but biased class switch recombination in the Sμ flanking regions

Current Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 227-231

  Lee, Chung Gi ^a   Kondo, Shigeru ^a,b   Honjo, Tasuku ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B CELL LYMPHOMA; DNA ANALYSIS; DNA FRAGMENT; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FRAGMENT; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MURINE;

MURINAE;

EID: 0032509949     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0960-9822(98)70087-9     Document Type: Article

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