The 3D Structure of the Immunoglobulin Heavy-Chain Locus: Implications for Long-Range Genomic Interactions

Cell

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 265-279

  Jhunjhunwala, Suchit ^a   van Zelm, Menno C ^a   Peak, Mandy M ^a   Cutchin, Steve ^b   Riblet, Roy ^c   van Dongen, Jacques J M ^d   Grosveld, Frank G ^d   Knoch, Tobias A ^d,e   Murre, Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TORREY PINES INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR STUDIES   (United States)

^d ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

CELLBIO; DNA; MOLIMMUNO

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL MATURATION; CHROMATIN STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CLUSTER; GENE INTERACTION; GENE LOCUS; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 41949121201     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2008.03.024     Document Type: Article

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