A B cell explanation for autoimmune disease: the forbidden clone returns.

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More than 60 years ago, Burnet first proposed the 'forbidden clone' hypothesis postulating that autoimmune disease arises as a result of persistence of self-reactive clones of lymphocytes that should have been deleted via immune tolerance. These autoreactive clones could effect immune-mediated end-organ damage via peripheral self-antigen recognition. Recent evidence that stretches across the boundaries of many...

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