Germline amino acid diversity in B cell receptors is a good predictor of somatic selection pressures

Frontiers in Immunology

Volumn 4, Issue NOV, 2013, Pages

  Schwartz, Gregory W ^a   Hershberg, Uri ^a,b  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

B cells; Diversity; Evolution; Selection; Somatic hypermutation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; B LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GERMLINE DIVERSITY; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; MIDDLE AGED; NORMAL HUMAN; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION; VERY ELDERLY;

EID: 84890342244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16643224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2013.00357     Document Type: Article

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