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Profiling the T-cell receptor beta-chain repertoire by massively parallel sequencing.
Genome research - 1 Oct 2009
Freeman J Douglas, Warren René L, Webb John R, Nelson Brad H, Holt Robert A
Abstract excerpt
T-cell receptor (TCR) genomic loci undergo somatic V(D)J recombination, plus the addition/subtraction of nontemplated bases at recombination junctions, in order to generate the repertoire of structurally diverse T cells necessary for antigen recognition. TCR beta subunits can be unambiguously identified by their hypervariable CDR3 (Complement Determining Region 3) sequence. This is the site of V(D)J recombination...
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