Immunoglobulin class switch recombination: Will genetics provide new clues to mechanism?

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1270-1275

  Maizels, Nancy ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; CD40 ANTIGEN; CYTOKINE; DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE;

DNA DAMAGE; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; MUTATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033362106     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/302393     Document Type: Article

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