hypervariable region

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regions present on light and heavy chains of immunoglobulins where most of the variation in amino acid sequences occurs. These are also sites of antigen binding.

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dominant gene gene gene amplification gene expression gene library gene pool gene probe gene splicing gene therapy Gene transcription gene transfer jumping gene lethal gene mutant gene sex-linked gene structural gene			To amplify just the msp2/p44 gene in the expression site and to determine hypervariable region sequences, we used AB1221 and AB1266 (5'-GAAGAAGAGATTGGACTTTTGATCTGTC-3') or AB1221 and AB1267 (5'-GAGGAAGAGATTGGA CTTTTGAGCTGTC-3'). Diversity of Anaplasma phagocytophilum strains, USA by Morissette, Eric; Massung, Robert F.; Foley, Janet E.; Alleman, A. Rick; Foley, Patrick; Barbet, Ant / Emerging Infectious Diseases Cigarette smoking raised the risk for RA, but only in patients who did not carry the HLA-DRB1 alleles encoding a common "shared" epitope sequence in the third hypervariable region of the DRB1 chain. Smoking raises risk of RA in some women by Moon, Mary Ann / Clinical Psychiatry News This portion of the mtDNA control region is generally referred to as the hypervariable region I (HVR1). Evolutionary toxicology: population-level effects of chronic ... by Bickham, John W. / Environmental Health Perspectives			hypertrophic cardiomyopathy hypertrophic catarrh hypertrophic cicatrization hypertrophic cirrhosis hypertrophic gastritis hypertrophic gingivitis hypertrophic hypersecretory gastropathy hypertrophic obesity hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy hypertrophic pulmonary osteopathy hypertrophic pyloric stenosis hypertrophic rhinitis hypertrophic scar hypertrophic scarring hypertrophic subaortic stenosis hypertrophy hypertrophy of heart hypertropia hypertyrosinemia hyperuricaemia hyperuricemia hyperuricosuria hyperuricuria hypervalinemia hypervariable region hypervascular hyperventilation hyperventilation syndrome hyperventilation tetany hypervigilance hyperviscosity hyperviscosity syndrome hypervitaminosis hypervitaminosis A hypervitaminosis D hypervolemia hypervolemia management hypesthesia hypha hyphaemia hyphedonia hyphema hyphemia hyphephilia hyphidrosis Hyphomyces destruens Hyphomycetes hyphomycosis hypn(o)- hypn-			hypertropia hypertropia Hypertropia at Distance Hypertropia at Near Hypertropy Specific Training Hypertrychosis Hypertrychosis Hypertrychosis Hypertyrosinemia Hypertyrosinemia Hypertyrosinemia Hyperuricaemia Hyperuricaemia Hyperuricaemia hyperuricemia hyperuricemia hyperuricemia Hyperuricemic Nephropathy, Familial Juvenile Hyperuricimia Hyperuricimia Hyperuricimia Hyperuricosuria Hyperuricosuria hyperuricuria HyperV hypervalent atom hypervalent compounds hypervalinemia Hypervariable control region hypervariable minisatellite hypervariable region Hypervariable Region 1 Hypervariable Region 4 Polymorphism Hypervariable Regions I and II Hypervariable Segment hypervascular hypervelocity hypervelocity hypervelocity armor-piercing Hypervelocity Countermeasures Program hypervelocity dust beam injection Hypervelocity impact Hypervelocity impact Hypervelocity impact Hypervelocity Impact Research Hypervelocity Impact Research Facility Hypervelocity Impact Technology Facility Hypervelocity Impact Test Facility Hypervelocity Impacts and Dusty Plasmas Lab Hypervelocity Kill Mechanics Hypervelocity Launcher Hypervelocity Missile Hypervelocity Weapon Hypervelocity Weapon System Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel Hypervelocity Wind Tunnel hyperventilate hyperventilate hyperventilate hyperventilated hyperventilates

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