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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 15.
Published in final edited form as: Br J Haematol. 2008 Apr 13;142(2):179–191. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2141.2008.07143.x

Figure 1. Idiotype.

Figure 1

The idiotype refers to the unique amino acid sequences within the complementarity determining regions (CDR) of the variable regions of the heavy and light chains of the surface immunoglobulin expressed on B-cell malignancies. IGHV – variable region of heavy chain; IGLV – variable region of light chain; CH – constant region of heavy chain; CL – constant region of light chain.