The human immunoglobulin κ locus on yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs)

Gene

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 173-181

  Brensing Küppers, Jutta ^a   Zocher, Ines ^a   Thiebe, Rainer ^a   Zachau, Hans G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Contigs; Orphons; Repetitive sequences; Variable gene segments

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA CHAIN; ORPHON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MAP; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MAPPING; GENOME; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; RESTRICTION MAPPING; YEAST ARTIFICIAL CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, ARTIFICIAL, YEAST; CLONING, MOLECULAR; COSMIDS; DNA PRIMERS; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, PULSED-FIELD; GENE LIBRARY; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN KAPPA-CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA;

EID: 0343852889     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(97)00056-5     Document Type: Article

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