Mouse immunoglobulin coding sequences for the heavy-chain variable region arose as repeats of the two short building blocks.

Evolution of Repeated DNA Sequences by Unequal Crossover

1976 • 1,208 citations

Two types of somatic recombination are necessary for the generation of complete immunoglobulin heavy-chain genes

1980 • 803 citations

Heavy chain variable region contribution to the NPb family of antibodies: somatic mutation evident in a γ2a variable region

1981 • 677 citations

Nucleic Acids in Immunology

1968 • 279 citations

Albumin-Deficient Rat Mutant

1979 • 277 citations

Diversity of germ-line immunoglobulin VH genes

1981 • 140 citations

Human immunoglobulin variable region genes—DNA sequences of two Vκ genes and a pseudogene

1980 • 139 citations

Pseudogenes

1980 • 84 citations

Analbuminemia in an American Indian girl

1976 • 58 citations

Original domain for the serum albumin family arose from repeated sequences.

1981 • 56 citations

(AGCTG) (AGCTG) (AGCTG) (GGGTG) as the Primordial Sequence of Intergenic Spacers: The Role in Immunoglobulin Class Switch

1981 • 16 citations

The Curse of Prometheus Is Laid upon the Immune System

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