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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Comp Immunol. 2013 Apr 6;41(1):33–43. doi: 10.1016/j.dci.2013.03.020

Table 3.

Length of non-templated nucleotides inserted at junctions of Ig heavy chain gene rearrangements.

IGHV-IGHD junction IGHD-IGHJ junction
Median 8 Range p-value* Median Range p-value*
Fetus 0–15 0 0–9
Neonate 11 0–25 0.005 4.5 0–22 0.009
Foal 11 0–34 0.744 5 0–15 0.792
Adult 16 0–37 0.113 7.5 0–28 0.060
*

p-value compared to values with previous age (ie, neonate vs. fetus, foal vs. neonate).