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IT is well established that there is great variation in the level of immunological response between individual animals of a non-inbred population when subjected to the same antigenic stimulus. The sources of variation may be partitioned into one or other of two main components : (a) The ‘genetic’ component, that is, the component of variation in response which is due to genetic differences between individuals of a non-inbred population ; (b) the ‘environmental’ component, that is, the component of variation which is susceptibleto environmental modification.
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DINEEN, J. Sources of Immunological Variation. Nature 202, 101–102 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/202101a0
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