Identifying highly mutated IGHD genes in the junctions of rearranged human immunoglobulin heavy chain genes

Journal of Immunological Methods

Volumn 324, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 26-37

  Jackson, Katherine J L ^a   Gaëta, Bruno A ^a   Collins, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Heavy chain, IGHD genes, Immunoglobulin, Monte Carlo simulations, Partitioning

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; GENE; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE MUTATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN DIVERSITY GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARTITION COEFFICIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION;

ANTIBODY DIVERSITY; BASE PAIR MISMATCH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MUTATION;

EID: 34347231977     PISSN: 00221759     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jim.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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