somatic diversification of immune receptors

somatic diversification of immune receptors

http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0002200

The somatic process allowing for the production of immune receptors whose specificity is not encoded in the germline genomic sequences. [ GOC:add http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16102575 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16166509 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0781735149 ]

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Note that this process covers somatic recombination, gene conversion, hypermutation, N-region addition, and alternate splicing processes of immune receptor diversification.

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immune system process
part of some immune system development