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Somatic hypermutation in normal and transformed human B cells.
Immunological reviews - 1 Apr 1998
Klein U, Goossens T, Fischer M, Kanzler H, Braeuninger A, Rajewsky K, Küppers R
Abstract excerpt
In the human, most IgM+IgD+ as well as CD5+ peripheral blood B cells express unmutated V genes and thus can be assigned to a pre-germinal centre (GC) stage of development. The memory B-cell compartment generated in the GC reaction and characterized by cells bearing somatically mutated V-region genes consists not only of class-switched cells, but also of IgM-only B cells and perhaps a subset of IgM+IgD+B cells...
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