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Independent recruitment of Igh alleles in V(D)J recombination.
Nature communications - 17 Dec 2014
Alves-Pereira Clara F, de Freitas Raquel, Lopes Telma, Gardner Rui, Marta Filipa, Vieira Paulo, Barreto Vasco M
Abstract excerpt
How the vast majority of B cells express only one of the two alleles at their immunoglobulin loci remains a biological puzzle. Here, in mice reconstituted with a single haematopoietic stem cell, we demonstrate that each of the two immunoglobulin heavy chain (Igh) alleles has a similar probability to be the first to undergo V(H) to DJ(H) rearrangement. We also observe this similar probability in clones from...
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