[A distinctive scheme of amino acid replacement was evolved for the generation of diversity, among hypervariable positions (author's transl)].

Abstract excerpt

The diversity of amino acid residues, at a same position when comparing several aligned polypeptide sequences, may be translated as follows. The way along which a given amino acid, A, is replaced--in average--by another amino acid, B, is characterized by a coefficient linked with the pair A-B. Th...

Topics

• Amino Acid Sequence
• Amino Acids
• Genetic Variation
• Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains
• Immunoglobulin Light Chains
• Statistics as Topic