Genetic plasticity of V genes under somatic hypermutation: Statistical analyses using a new resampling-based methodology

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1294-1304

  Oprea, Mihaela ^a,b   Kepler, Thomas B ^c  

^a University of NewMexico   (United States)

^b SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

ARTICLE; CODON USAGE; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; IMMUNE SYSTEM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENES, T-CELL RECEPTOR; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 0033404359     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.9.12.1294     Document Type: Article

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