Prospective estimation of recombination signal efficiency and identification of functional cryptic signals in the genome by statistical modeling

Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 197, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 207-220

  Cowell, Lindsay G ^a   Davila, Marco ^a   Yang, Kaiyong ^a   Kepler, Thomas B ^a   Kelsoe, Garnett ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cryptic recombination signal; Illegitimate V(D)J recombination; Recombination efficiency; Recombination signal models; Recombination signal sequence

Indexed keywords

REPETITIVE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; MOUSE; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MICE; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0037454957     PISSN: 00221007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1084/jem.20020250     Document Type: Article

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