Specificity and overlap in gene segment-defined antibody repertoires

BMC Genomics

Volumn 6, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Arnaout, Ramy A ^a,b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN J CHAIN; EPITOPE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR;

ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN STRUCTURE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; NONHUMAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA BASE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENOME; IMMUNOLOGY; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; ANTIGENS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATABASES AS TOPIC; EPITOPES; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; GENOME; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEPTIDE LIBRARY; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 27744454600     PISSN: 14712164     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-6-148     Document Type: Article

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