[The k-locus of human immunoglobulin and its significance for other programs studying the human genome]

A review presented in Moscow on December 4, 1989 at the 5th Engelhardt Memorial Lecture on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology. This article was adapted from another review lecture delivered in September 1989 in (H.G. Zachau/Biol. Chem. Hoppe-Seyler, 1990. V. 371. P. 1-6).