Segmental duplication as one of the driving forces underlying the diversity of the human immunoglobulin heavy chain variable gene region

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Segmental duplication and deletion were implicated for a region containing the human immunoglobulin heavy chain variable (IGHV) gene segments, 1.9III/hv3005 (possible allelic variants of IGHV3-30) and hv3019b9 (a possible allelic var...

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Main Authors: Gao Richeng, Shen Li, Hu Guohong, Chimge Nyam-Osor, Wang Hui-Yun, Cui Xiangfeng, Pramanik Sreemanta, Li Honghua
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2011-01-01
Series:BMC Genomics
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/12/78