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Lineage tree analysis of immunoglobulin variable-region gene mutations in autoimmune diseases: chronic activation, normal selection.
Cellular immunology - 1 Dec 2006
Steiman-Shimony Avital, Edelman Hanna, Hutzler Anat, Barak Michal, Zuckerman Neta S, Shahaf Gitit, Dunn-Walters Deborah, Stott David I, Abraham Roshini S, Mehr Ramit
Abstract excerpt
Autoimmune diseases show high diversity in the affected organs, clinical manifestations and disease dynamics. Yet they all share common features, such as the ectopic germinal centers found in many affected tissues. Lineage trees depict the diversification, via somatic hypermutation (SHM), of immunoglobulin variable-region (IGV) genes. We previously developed an algorithm for quantifying the graphical properties...
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