Front | In a heterozygous individual, the expression of only one of the two variant forms of a gene. In immunology, the term describes the restricted expression of the individual chains of the antigen receptor genes, such that each individual lymphocyte produces immunoglobulin or T-cell receptors of a single antigen specificity |
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Back | allelic exclusion |
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