Predicting regional mutability in antibody V genes based solely on di- and trinucleotide sequence composition

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 259-268

  Shapiro, Gary S ^a,b   Aviszus, Katja ^a   Ikle, David ^a   Wysocki, Lawrence J ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL JEWISH MEDICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DINUCLEOTIDE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRINUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INTRON; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA STRUCTURE; SOMATIC MUTATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT;

ANIMALS; BASE COMPOSITION; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GERM-LINE MUTATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; MICE, INBRED A; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 0033168638     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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