Genetic diversification by somatic gene conversion

Genes

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 48-58

  Kurosawa, Kohei ^a   Ohta, Kunihiro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

DNA break; Gene conversion; Immunoglobulin locus; Recombination

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

CHICKEN; DNA SEQUENCE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; EUKARYOTE; GENE CONVERSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOMICS; NONHUMAN; RABBIT; REVIEW; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BREAK; SOMATIC CELL;

ANIMALIA; EUKARYOTA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

EID: 79953679290     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20734425     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/genes2010048     Document Type: Review

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