Genome Biology

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Signaling advances from immunogenetics to immunogenomics

Mark Boothby

Author Affiliations

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA

Genome Biology 2003, 4:239 doi:10.1186/gb-2003-4-12-239

Published: 19 November 2003

Abstract

Recent studies describe new genome-wide mutagenesis strategies, coupled with phenotypic screening, and demonstrate the power of such approaches to provide new insights into the genetics of the immune response.