Assessing human B cell repertoire diversity and convergence.

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A hallmark of the adaptive immune system is the specificity of B cell and T cell responses. Mechanistically, this feature relies on the fact that the two genes that encode B cell and T cell antigen receptors are not germline encoded and instead are assembled from a large number of small gene segments during lymphocyte development. The underlying somatic gene recombination process can generate a quasi-unlimited...

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