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Takeshima, Hirohiko; Iguchi, Kei-ichiro & Nishida, Mutsumi (2005): Unexpected Ceiling of Genetic Differentiation in the Control Region of the Mitochondrial DNA between Different Subspecies of the Ayu
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of the human mitogenome, the most variable sites of HVR1 are numbered 16024-16383 (this subsequence is called HVR-I), and the most variable sites of HVR2 are numbered 57-372 (
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Antibodies are remarkably specific, thanks to hypervariable regions in both light and heavy chains. The hyperbariable regions for the antigen-binding site.
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repeat (in the case of nuclear DNA) or have substitutions (in the case of mitochondrial DNA). Changes or repeats in the hypervariable region are highly
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accumulate mutations faster and more freely. It is not known whether such hypovariable control regions are more widespread. In the
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Human mitochondrial genome showing hypervariable regions I to III (green boxes) located in the control region (CR; grey box).
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are far lower in the control region than elsewhere. This phenomenon completely defies explanation at present.
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There are two mitochondrial hypervariable regions used in human mitochondrial
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DNA: Forensic and Legal Applications, Explanation of Hypervariable Regions
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Michael Stein; Paul Zei; Gloria Hwang; Radhika Breaden (2000).
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rate is not markedly lowered, but sequence differences between
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segments of each heavy or light chain fold together at the
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evolves remarkably slowly. Even functional mitochondrial
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A highly polymorphic nuclear or mitochondrial DNA region
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Index

split
Hypervariable region (nucleic acid)
Hypervariable region (antibody)
discuss
nuclear DNA
D-loop
mitochondrial DNA
base pairs
nucleotides
polymorphic

genealogical DNA testing
haplogroup
Cambridge Reference Sequence
bony fishes
Protacanthopterygii
Gadidae
mitochondrial control region
genes
Ayu
East Asian
mutation
subspecies
V(D)J recombination
Somatic hypermutation
antibodies
light
heavy chains
variable domain
N-terminus

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