Evolution of immunoglobulin kappa chain variable region genes in vertebrates
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Evolution of immunoglobulin kappa chain variable region genes in vertebrates.
The major source of immunoglobulin diversity is variation in DNA sequence among multiple copies of variable region (V) genes of the heavy- and light-chain multigene families. In order to clarify the evolutionary pattern of the multigene family of immunoglobulin light kappa chain V region (V kappa) genes, phylogenetic analyses of V kappa genes from humans and other vertebrate species were conduc...
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عنوان ژورنال: Molecular Biology and Evolution
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0737-4038,1537-1719
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a025846