Statistical inference of the generation probability of T-cell receptors from sequence repertoires

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 40, 2012, Pages 16161-16166

  Murugan, Anand ^a   Mora, Thierry ^b   Walczak, Aleksandra M ^b   Callan, Curtis G ^a,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

Author keywords

Convergent recombination; Expectation maximization; Insertion deletion profiles; Palindromic nucleotides

Indexed keywords

CELL DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; VDJ RECOMBINATION;

EID: 84867095375     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1212755109     Document Type: Article

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