Allelic exclusion of the immunoglobulin heavy chain locus is independent of its nuclear localization in mature B cells

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 41, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 6905-6916

  Holwerda, Sjoerd J B ^a   Van De Werken, Harmen J G ^a,b   Ribeiro De Almeida, Claudia ^b,c   Bergen, Ingrid M ^b   De Bruijn, Marjolein J W ^b   Verstegen, Marjon J A M ^a   Simonis, Marieke ^a   Splinter, Erik ^a,d   Wijchers, Patrick J ^a   Hendriks, Rudi W ^b   De Laat, Wouter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d Cergentis BV   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

ALLELIC EXCLUSION; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BRAIN; CELL MATURATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOME; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE LOCATION; GENE LOCUS; IGH GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMATIN; CHROMOSOMES, MAMMALIAN; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; GENETIC LOCI; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MICE; RECOMBINATION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPLEEN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84881498584     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt491     Document Type: Article

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