Secondary mechanisms of diversification in the human antibody repertoire

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue MAR, 2013, Pages

  Briney, Bryan S ^a   Crowe Jr, James E ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

B Cell Biology; Human; Insertion deletion; VDJ rearrangement; VH replacement

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; DNA END JOINING REPAIR; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84883755842     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00042     Document Type: Review

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