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1Department of Pharmacology, Neurosciences Program, Biomedical Sciences Program, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California 92093-0636, USA. jchun@ucsd.edu
Current Biology : CB
|April 21, 1999
Abstract:
Somatic DNA recombination is essential for production of functional antigen receptor genes of T and B lymphocytes, but it is thought to be unique to the immune system. Recent studies have now shown that recombination-related genes are also necessary for normal neuronal development.