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A modified digestion-circularization PCR (DC-PCR) approach to detect hypermutation-associated DNA double-strand breaks.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences - 1 Apr 2003
Dickerson Sarah K, Papavasiliou F Nina
Abstract excerpt
Hypermutation of immunoglobulin variable region genes occurs in B cells during an immune response, and is vital for the development of high-affinity antibodies. The molecular mechanism of the hypermutation reaction is unknown, but it seems to correlate with the generation of locus-specific, double-strand breaks. These DNA breaks have been measured by ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction (LM-PCR), a...
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