Individual variation in the germline Ig gene repertoire inferred from variable region gene rearrangements

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 184, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 6986-6992

  Boyd, Scott D ^a   Gaëta, Bruno A ^c   Jackson, Katherine J ^c   Fire, Andrew Z ^a,b   Marshall, Eleanor L ^b   Merker, Jason D ^a,b   Maniar, Jay M ^b   Zhang, Lyndon N ^b   Sahaf, Bita ^b   Jones, Carol D ^a   Simen, Birgitte B ^d   Hanczaruk, Bozena ^d   Nguyen, Khoa D ^b   Nadeau, Kari C ^b   Egholm, Michael ^d   Miklos, David B ^a   Zehnder, James L ^a   Collins, Andrew M ^c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; MESSENGER RNA;

ALLELE; APLASTIC ANEMIA; ARTICLE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DELETION; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GERM LINE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IGHD GENE; IGHJ6 GENE; IGHV GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VDJ EXON; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETICS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

BASE SEQUENCE; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 77953632929     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1000445     Document Type: Article

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