The immunoglobulin kappa locus contains a second, stronger B-cell-specific enhancer which is located downstream of the constant region.

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Published in EMBO J on July 01, 1989

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K B Meyer1, M S Neuberger

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1: MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK.

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