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Nature Immunology  5, 476 - 477 (2004)
doi:10.1038/ni0504-476

Paradigm switching in the germinal center

Jennifer E Posey1, 2, Vicky L Brandt1 & David B Roth1

1  Jennifer E. Posey, Vicky L. Brandt and David B. Roth are at the Program in Molecular Pathogenesis, Skirball Institute and Department of Pathology, NYU School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016, USA. roth@saturn.med.nyu.edu

2  Jennifer Posey is also in the Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.

Antigen receptor genes are assembled by a sequence of lineage-specific recombinatorial events, in which DNA breaks must be properly repaired to ensure cell survival and further developmental maturation. B lymphocytes, it seems, use multiple unique pathways to repair their DNA.

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