Long noncoding RNAs: Implications for antigen receptor diversification

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 104, Issue C, 2009, Pages 25-50

  Teng, Grace ^a,b   Papavasiliou, F Nina ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; REVIEW;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ANIMALS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN; RNA, UNTRANSLATED; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 77953258670     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: 15578445     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2776(08)04002-9     Document Type: Article

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