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somatic diversification of immune receptors
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The somatic process allowing for the production of immune receptors whose specificity is not encoded in the germline genomic sequences. [ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16166509 https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=bn%3A0781735149 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16102575 ]
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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.
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GO:0002200