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Assessing Somatic Hypermutation in Ramos B Cells after Overexpression or Knockdown of Specific Genes
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Mismatch repair and immunoglobulin gene hypermutation: did we learn something?
C A Reynaud1, B Bertocci, S Frey
1INSERM U373, Faculté de Médecine Necker-Enfants Malades, Université Paris V, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75730 Paris Cedex 15, France. reynaud@infobiogen.fr
Immunology Today
|October 26, 1999
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