Persisting fetal clonotypes influence the structure and overlap of adult human T cell receptor repertoires.
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 abun...
Main Authors: | , , , , , , , , , , , |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-07-01
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Series: | PLoS Computational Biology |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5500008?pdf=render |