How to keep V(D)J recombination under control

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 200, Issue , 2004, Pages 165-181

  Oettinger, Marjorie A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTONE; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; RECOMBINASE;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; CARCINOGENESIS; CELL DEATH; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; DNA REPAIR; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM TUMOR; NUCLEOSOME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW;

ALLELES; CHROMATIN; DNA REPAIR; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, BETA-CHAIN T-CELL ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; GENE REARRANGEMENT, T-LYMPHOCYTE; HISTONES; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEOSOMES; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA;

EID: 3242886299     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0105-2896.2004.00172.x     Document Type: Review

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