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- adjective Containing a high degree of
variability
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Binding occurs in a small region near the ends of the heavy and light chain called the hypervariable region (labeled only on one arm in the figure).
Watching the Watchers Vincent Racaniello 2009
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Binding occurs in a small region near the ends of the heavy and light chain called the hypervariable region (labeled only on one arm in the figure).
Watching the Watchers Vincent Racaniello 2009
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"hypervariable" region, which changes fast enough to provide a molecular clock calibrated to times comparable to the age of modern humanity.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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"hypervariable" region, which changes fast enough to provide a molecular clock calibrated to times comparable to the age of modern humanity.
Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News 2010
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"hypervariable" region, which changes fast enough to provide a molecular clock calibrated to times comparable to the age of modern humanity.
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"hypervariable" region, which changes fast enough to provide a molecular clock calibrated to times comparable to the age of modern humanity.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Sequence data from the mitochondrial cytochrome-b gene and the hypervariable control region as well as 7th intron of the nuclear fibrinogen gene show these 2 taxa to be reciprocally monophyletic.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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These probes contain the common core sequence of a hypervariable dispersed repetitive sequence GGGCAGGAXG, first discovered by Jeffreys et al. (1985) in the myoglobin gene (see Section 7.4.2).
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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Other hypervariable repeated sequences have been used in the same way, for example those detected by the synthetic oligonucleotide (CAC) 5 (Krawczak and Schmidtke, 1998). top link
Archive 2004-12-01 2004
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To confirm that the selected skeletal remains were from a single individual, samples taken from the teeth remaining in the cranium were isolated and sequenced for the hypervariable region I (HVI) and II (HVII) of the mitochondrial genome in three independent laboratories.
Research Blogging - All Topics - English Michele Arduengo 2010
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