Sterile DJH rearrangements reveal that distance between gene segments on the human Ig H chain locus influences their ability to rearrange

Journal of Immunology

Volumn 194, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 973-982

  Hansen, Tina Østergaard ^a   Lange, Anders Blaabjerg ^b   Barington, Torben ^c  

^a ROSKILDE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c ODENSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; D GENE; GENE LOCUS; GENE REARRANGEMENT; GENE SEGMENT; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; JH GENE; NORMAL HUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; VH GENE; B LYMPHOCYTE; GENE ORDER; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; IMMUNOLOGY; METABOLISM; REPRODUCIBILITY; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN;

B-LYMPHOCYTES; GENE ORDER; GENE REARRANGEMENT, B-LYMPHOCYTE, HEAVY CHAIN; GENETIC LOCI; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84921461110     PISSN: 00221767     EISSN: 15506606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1401443     Document Type: Article

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