The nucleotide-replacement spectrum under somatic hypermutation exhibits microsequence dependence that is strand-symmetric and distinct from that under germline mutation

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 164, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1971-1976

  Cowell, Lindsay G ^a   Kepler, Thomas B ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BASE MISPAIRING; DNA STRAND; GENE MUTATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; INTRON; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SOMATIC MUTATION;

EID: 0034652015     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.164.4.1971     Document Type: Article

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