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Clinical and Developmental Immunology
Volume 2008, Article ID 146715, 6 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/146715
Research Article

Molecular Analysis of Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase Gene in Immunoglobulin-E Deficient Patients

Sergio Roa,1,2 Maria Isidoro-Garcia,1,3 Ignacio Davila,3 Elena Laffond,3 Felix Lorente,3 and Rogelio Gonzalez-Sarmiento1,4

1Molecular Medicine Unit, Department of Medicine, University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
2Department of Cell Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
3Department of Allergy, University Hospital of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain
4Centro de Investigación del Cáncer (CIC-IBMCC), University of Salamanca, 37007 Salamanca, Spain

Received 30 September 2008; Accepted 18 December 2008

Academic Editor: Kurt Blaser

Copyright © 2008 Sergio Roa et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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