Medical Definition of Hypervariable region
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Those regions of the heavy or light chains of immunoglobulins in which there is considerable sequence diversity within that set of immunoglobulins in a single individual. These regions specify the antigen affinity of each antibody.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypervariable Region
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