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The diversity of rearranged immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region genes in peripheral blood B cells of preterm infants is restricted by short third complementarity-determining regions but not by limited gene segment usage.
Blood - 1 Mar 2001
Zemlin M, Bauer K, Hummel M, Pfeiffer S, Devers S, Zemlin C, Stein H, Versmold H T
Abstract excerpt
The immunoglobulin diversity is restricted in fetal liver B cells. This study examined whether peripheral blood B cells of extremely preterm infants show similar restrictions (overrepresentation of some gene segments, short third complementarity-determining regions [CDR3]). DNA of rearranged immu...
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