High-resolution description of antibody heavy-chain repertoires in humans

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Arnaout, Ramy ^a,b,d   Lee, William ^b,e   Cahill, Patrick ^b   Honan, Tracey ^b   Sparrow, Todd ^b   Weiand, Michael ^b   Nusbaum, Chad ^b   Rajewsky, Klaus ^c   Koralov, Sergei B ^c,f  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^c CENTER FOR BLOOD RESEARCH   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Ion Torrent   (United States)

^f NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD3 ANTIGEN; PROTEIN ANTIBODY; RECOMBINASE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; PRIMER DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC RECOMBINATION; HEAVY CHAIN; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; VDJ EXON; CHEMISTRY; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGION; IMMUNOLOGY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VALIDATION STUDY; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

ADULT; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY DETERMINING REGIONS; DNA PRIMERS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; V(D)J RECOMBINATION;

EID: 79961160227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022365     Document Type: Article

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