Artemis: Guarding small children and, now, the genome

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 315-316

  Brandt, Vicky L ^a   Roth, David B ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; DNA DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLEXOTRANSFERASE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RAG1 PROTEIN;

ANTIGEN BINDING; ARTEMIS GENE; B CELL LYMPHOMA; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER RISK; CHILD; COMBINED IMMUNODEFICIENCY; DNA REPAIR; FIBROBLAST; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ANIMALS; BETA-LACTAMASES; DNA NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; FIBROBLASTS; GENOME; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; VDJ RECOMBINASES;

EID: 0037314411     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI200317743     Document Type: Note

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