Immunoglobulin gene diversification

Annual Review of Genetics

Volumn 39, Issue , 2005, Pages 23-46

  Maizels, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Deamination; Mutation; Recombination; Repair

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

B LYMPHOCYTE; DEAMINATION; DNA REPAIR; GENE CONVERSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; MUTAGENESIS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 27644489367     PISSN: 00664197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.genet.39.073003.110544     Document Type: Review

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