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somatic diversification of immune receptors

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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.

Term info

Label

somatic diversification of immune receptors

definition

The somatic process allowing for the production of immune receptors whose specificity is not encoded in the germline genomic sequences.

has obo namespace

biological_process

id

GO:0002200

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http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/cl.owl