Expression of the BLM gene in human haematopoietic cells

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 285-289

  Kaneko, Hideo ^a   Matsui, E ^a   Fukao, T ^a   Kasahara, K ^a   Morimoto, W ^a   Kondo, N ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

B cell differentiation; BLM; DNA instability; Expression

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL RECESSIVE INHERITANCE; BLOOM SYNDROME; CANCER SUSCEPTIBILITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC STABILITY; HEMATOPOIETIC CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECESSIVE GENE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; BLOOM SYNDROME; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA HELICASES; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MALE; MUTATION; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; TUMOR CELLS, CULTURED;

EID: 0032707335     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.1999.01060.x     Document Type: Article

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