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Frequency and genetic characterization of V(DD)J recombinants in the human peripheral blood antibody repertoire.
Immunology - 1 Sept 2012
Briney Bryan S, Willis Jordan R, Hicar Mark D, Thomas James W, Crowe James E
Abstract excerpt
Antibody heavy-chain recombination that results in the incorporation of multiple diversity (D) genes, although uncommon, contributes substantially to the diversity of the human antibody repertoire. Such recombination allows the generation of heavy chain complementarity determining region 3 (HCDR3) regions of extreme length and enables junctional regions that, because of the nucleotide bias of N-addition regions,...
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