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TONEGAWA, Susumu (1939 – )

TONEGAWA, Susumu (1939 – )

1939 –

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Evidence for somatic rearrangement of immunoglobulin genes coding for variable and constant regions.

TONEGAWA, Susumu (1939 – )
TONEGAWA, Susumu (1939 – )

Discovery of V(D)J recombination, the genetic mechanism which produces antibody diversity. In 1987 Tonegawa was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the genetic principle for generat…