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Immunoglobulin variable-region gene mutational lineage tree analysis: application to autoimmune diseases.
Autoimmunity reviews - 1 Apr 2006
Steiman-Shimony Avital, Edelman Hanna, Barak Michal, Shahaf Gitit, Dunn-Walters Deborah, Stott David I, Abraham Roshini S, Mehr Ramit
Abstract excerpt
Lineage trees have frequently been drawn to illustrate diversification, via somatic hypermutation (SHM), of immunoglobulin variable-region (IGV) genes. In order to extract more information from IGV sequences, we developed a novel mathematical method for analyzing the graphical properties of IgV gene lineage trees, allowing quantification of the differences between the dynamics of SHM and antigen-driven selection...
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