allotypy

English

Etymology

From allotype +‎ -y.

Noun

allotypy (countable and uncountable, plural allotypies)

1. The occurrence of multiple allotypes within a single individual.
   • 1969, Rene Butler, Isoantigenicity of human plasma proteins - Volume 31, page 10:

     Other allotypies have been found in 1961 by Benaceraff and Gell [32] in guinea-pigs, likewise in 1961 by Kelus and Moor-Jankowski in mice [219] and in baboons [220], in 1963 by Greuter and Butler [159] in Rhesus monkeys, ...

   • 2014, Alfred Nisonoff, John E. Hopper, Susan B. Spring, The Antibody Molecule, →ISBN, page 346:

     Since the differences in amino acid sequence associated with allotypy are small, rabbit IgG molecules of different allotype share most of their antigenic specificities.

   • 2014, Anthony R. Rees, The Antibody Molecule: From antitoxins to therapeutic antibodies, →ISBN:

     Oudin named these reactive serum components allotypes and further concluded that it is reasonable to suppose that allotypy is not an unusual phenomenon, particularly with regard to certain rabbit serum proteins, that it might also be expected to occur in other species, and that the phenomenon may have a genetic basis, a proposition arising from the individual rabbit diversity of allotypic reactivity.