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Crossing over theories have been advanced to explain antibody variability, and the simplest involves recombination between the elements of an “antibody gene pair” containing two versions of the variable section of the molecule. Data now seem to require at least three versions of the same section.
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MILSTEIN, C. Linked Groups of Residues in Immunoglobulin κ Chains. Nature 216, 330–332 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/216330a0
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