The process in which immunoglobulin gene segments are recombined within a single locus utilizing the conserved heptamer and nonomer recombination signal sequences (RSS). For immunoglobulin heavy chains V, D, and J gene segments are joined, and for immunoglobulin light chains V and J gene segments are joined. [GOC:add, ISBN:0781735149]
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C5: Ontology GO: Gene Ontology GO:BP: GO Biological Process