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It takes two: communication between homologous alleles preserves genomic stability during V(D)J recombination.
Nucleus (Austin, Tex.) - 1 Jan 2000
Brandt Vicky L, Hewitt Susannah L, Skok Jane A
Abstract excerpt
Chromosome pairing is involved in X chromosome inactivation, a classic instance of monoallelic gene expression. Antigen receptor genes are also monoallelically expressed ("allelically excluded") by B and T lymphocytes, and we asked whether pairing contributed to the regulation of V(D)J recombination at these loci. We found that homologous immunoglobulin (Ig) alleles pair up during recombination. Homologous Ig...
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