Individual heritable differences result in unique cell lymphocyte receptor repertoires of naïve and antigen-experienced cells
Rubelt F, Bolen CR, McGuire HM, Heiden J, Gadala-Maria D, Levin M, M. Euskirchen G, Mamedov MR, Swan GE, Dekker CL, Cowell LG, Kleinstein SH, Davis MM. Individual heritable differences result in unique cell lymphocyte receptor repertoires of naïve and antigen-experienced cells. Nature Communications 2016, 7: 11112. PMID: 27005435, PMCID: PMC5191574, DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11112.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsChromosome-wide levelJ gene segmentsAntigen receptor repertoireHeritable mechanismsSingle chromosomeEpigenetic differencesHeritable differencesReceptor repertoireLymphocyte receptor repertoireGene segmentsAdaptive immune systemHeritable factorsRepertoireRelative usageAntigen-experienced cellsThymic selectionCellsImmune systemChromosomesSignificant variationCDR3 regionMonozygotic twinsRearrangementT lymphocyte subsets