allotypy

Definitions

The occurrence of multiple allotypes within a single individual.

countable, uncountable

Examples

“Other allotypies have⟳ been found in 1961 by Benaceraff and Gell [32] in guinea-pigs, likewise in 1961 by Kelus and Moor-Jankowski in mice [219] and in baboons [220], in 1963 by Greuter and Butler [159] in Rhesus monkeys, ...”

“Since the differences in amino acid sequence associated with allotypy are small, rabbit IgG molecules of different allotype share⟳ most of their antigenic specificities.”

“Oudin named these reactive serum components allotypes and further concluded that it is reasonable to suppose⟳ that allotypy is not an unusual phenomenon, particularly with regard to certain rabbit serum proteins, that it might also be expected to occur⟳ in other species, and that the phenomenon may have⟳ a genetic basis, a proposition arising from the individual rabbit diversity of allotypic reactivity.”

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