somatic diversification of immune receptors
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/GO_0002200
The somatic process allowing for the production of immune receptors whose specificity is not encoded in the germline genomic sequences. [ GOC:add http://openisbn.com/search.php?q=0781735149&isbn=1/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16166509 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16102575 ]
Term info
Note that this process covers somatic recombination, gene conversion, hypermutation, N-region addition, and alternate splicing processes of immune receptor diversification.
biological_process
GO:0002200