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Science 13 August 1971:
Vol. 173. no. 3997, pp. 629 - 633
DOI: 10.1126/science.173.3997.629
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Variation and Homology in the Mu and Gamma Heavy Chains of Human Immunoglobulins

Akira Shimizu 1, Claudine Paul 1, Heinz Köhler 1, Tomotaka Shinoda 1, and Frank W. Putnam 1

1 Department of Zoology, Indiana University, Bloomington 47401

Sequence analysis of an 1gM immunoglobulin shows that the variable regions of hunman µ and ggr1 heavy chainis may have twice as much homology as their constant regions and that evolutionary divergence of µ and ggr1 heavy chain genes occurred not long after the separation of heavy and light chain genes.


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