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DNA damage and repair during lymphoid development: antigen receptor diversity, genomic integrity and lymphomagenesis.
Immunologic research - 1 Jan 2008
Puebla-Osorio Nahum, Zhu Chengming
Abstract excerpt
Lymphocyte maturation requires generation of a large diversity of antigen receptors, which involves somatic rearrangements at the antigen receptor genes in a process termed V(D)J recombination. Upon encountering specific antigens, B-lymphocytes undergo rearrangements in the constant region of the immunoglobulin genes to optimize immune responses in a process called class switch recombination. Activated B-cells...
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