The analysis of clonal expansions in normal and autoimmune B cell repertoires

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 370, Issue 1676, 2015, Pages

  Hershberg, Uri ^a,b   Luning Prak, Eline T ^c  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibody; Clone; Clonotype; High throughput sequencing; Immunoglobulin; Repertoire

Indexed keywords

ANCESTRY; ANTIBODY; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CLONE; DATA SET; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNITY; MUTATION; PROTEIN;

IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAIN;

ANTIGEN MEDIATED CLONAL SELECTION; AUTOIMMUNITY; B LYMPHOCYTE; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURFACE DISPLAY; CYTOLOGY; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HYBRIDOMA; IMMUNOLOGY; SINGLE CELL ANALYSIS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION;

AUTOIMMUNITY; B-LYMPHOCYTES; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL SURFACE DISPLAY TECHNIQUES; CLONAL SELECTION, ANTIGEN-MEDIATED; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; HYBRIDOMAS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN HEAVY CHAINS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN LIGHT CHAINS; SINGLE-CELL ANALYSIS; SOMATIC HYPERMUTATION, IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

EID: 84937675261     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2014.0239     Document Type: Review

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