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Lineage structure of the human antibody repertoire in response to influenza vaccination.
Science translational medicine - 6 Feb 2013
Jiang Ning, He Jiankui, Weinstein Joshua A, Penland Lolita, Sasaki Sanae, He Xiao-Song, Dekker Cornelia L, Zheng Nai-Ying, Huang Min, Sullivan Meghan, Wilson Patrick C, Greenberg Harry B, Davis Mark M, Fisher Daniel S, Quake Stephen R
Abstract excerpt
The human antibody repertoire is one of the most important defenses against infectious disease, and the development of vaccines has enabled the conferral of targeted protection to specific pathogens. However, there are many challenges to measuring and analyzing the immunoglobulin sequence repertoire, including that each B cell's genome encodes a distinct antibody sequence, that the antibody repertoire changes...
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