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Persisting fetal clonotypes influence the structure and overlap of adult human T cell receptor repertoires.
PLoS computational biology - 1 Jul 2017
Pogorelyy Mikhail V, Elhanati Yuval, Marcou Quentin, Sycheva Anastasiia L, Komech Ekaterina A, Nazarov Vadim I, Britanova Olga V, Chudakov Dmitriy M, Mamedov Ilgar Z, Lebedev Yury B, Mora Thierry, Walczak Aleksandra M
Abstract excerpt
The diversity of T-cell receptors recognizing foreign pathogens is generated through a highly stochastic recombination process, making the independent production of the same sequence rare. Yet unrelated individuals do share receptors, which together constitute a "public" repertoire of abundant clonotypes. The TCR repertoire is initially formed prenatally, when the enzyme inserting random nucleotides is...
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