Table 1.
Numbers of sequences with fragments of the human heavy and κ chains and numbers of different words in each fragment
| Fragment | Heavy chains
|
κ chains
|
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers of chains | Numbers of different words | Numbers of chains | Numbers of different words | |
| OA | 743 (82) | 43 (6) | 444 (32) | 29 (9) |
| A | 799 (82) | 35 (8) | 483 (32) | 12 (2) |
| AA′ | 803 (82) | 23 (7) | 472 (32) | 29 (13) |
| A′ | 840 (82) | 61 (13) | 506 (32) | 32 (12) |
| A′B | 841 (82) | 38 (15) | 485 (32) | 26 (8) |
| B | 811 (82) | 119 (15) | 465 (32) | 74 (12) |
| BC | 828 (82) | 66 (10) | 439 (32) | 34 (5) |
| C | 820 (83) | 95 (23) | 425 (32) | 43 (12) |
| CC′ | 828 (82) | 84 (17) | 419 (32) | 47 (13) |
| C′ | 807 (83) | 135 (33) | 427 (32) | 43 (11) |
| C"D | 828 (82) | 124 (18) | 430 (32) | 50 (6) |
| D | 825 (82) | 129 (22) | 421 (32) | 32 (4) |
| DE | 830 (82) | 112 (21) | 425 (32) | 11 (1) |
| E | 838 (82) | 189 (18) | 415 (32) | 46 (6) |
| EF | 827 (82) | 140 (20) | 411 (32) | 58 (12) |
| F | 844 (78) | 99 (15) | 411 (32) | 51 (7) |
| G | 478 | 98 | 335 | 75 |
Numbers of sequences containing a given fragment (numbers of chains) and numbers of different words are shown for 17 of 21 fragments of the human heavy and κ chains; analogous data for 16 available VH and Vκ domain fragments of germ-line sequences are presented in parentheses.