1939– Japanese immunologist who discovered the process through which a relatively small number of gene segments could give rise to a vast number of antibodies with different specificities.
Keywords: antibody diversity
Tonegawa, Susumu
Neeraja Sankaran, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Published online: April 2001
DOI: 10.1038/npg.els.0002932
| Further Reading | |
| Tonegawa S (1983) Somatic generation of antibody diversity. Nature 302: 575–581. | |
