Identification of an AID-independent pathway for chromosomal translocations between the Igh switch region and Myc

Nature Immunology

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1117-1123

  Unniraman, Shyam ^a   Zhou, Shaoming ^a   Schatz, David G ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVATION INDUCED CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; IMMUNOGLOBULIN D; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MYC PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; B LYMPHOCYTE; CANCER GROWTH; CHROMOSOME TRANSLOCATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA STRAND BREAKAGE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GENE SWITCHING; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEASUREMENT; MOUSE; MUTAGENICITY; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C MYC; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTIDINE DEAMINASE; CYTOSINE DEAMINASE; GENES, MYC; IMMUNOGLOBULIN CLASS SWITCHING; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MICE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, B-CELL; TRANSLOCATION, GENETIC;

EID: 9244241060     PISSN: 15292908     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ni1127     Document Type: Article

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