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IGHE
Introduction
Immunoglobulin heavy constant epsilon, also known as IGHE, is a human gene.[1]
Further reading
Further reading
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- Max EE, Battey J, Ney R; et al. (1982). “Duplication and deletion in the human immunoglobulin epsilon genes”. Cell. 29 (2): 691–9. PMID 6288268.
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- Ueda S, Nakai S, Nishida Y; et al. (1984). “Long terminal repeat-like elements flank a human immunoglobulin epsilon pseudogene that lacks introns”. EMBO J. 1 (12): 1539–44. PMID 6327276.
- Hisajima H, Nishida Y, Nakai S; et al. (1983). “Structure of the human immunoglobulin C epsilon 2 gene, a truncated pseudogene: implications for its evolutionary origin”. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80 (10): 2995–9. PMID 6407005.
- Flanagan JG, Lefranc MP, Rabbitts TH (1984). “Mechanisms of divergence and convergence of the human immunoglobulin alpha 1 and alpha 2 constant region gene sequences”. Cell. 36 (3): 681–8. PMID 6421489.
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