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Immunoglobulin Variable Region
The portion of an antibody molecule that contains the three hypervariable regions in both the heavy and light chains. It is comprised of the amino terminal half of the light chains and at most a third of the heavy chains from the amino termini. (NCI Thesaurus)
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