T cell receptor diversity in the human thymus

Molecular Immunology

Volumn 76, Issue , 2016, Pages 116-122

  Vanhanen, Reetta ^a   Heikkilä, Nelli ^a   Aggarwal, Kunal ^b   Hamm, David ^c   Tarkkila, Heikki ^a   Pätilä, Tommi ^d   Jokiranta, T Sakari ^a   Saramäki, Jari ^b   Arstila, T Petteri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^c ADAPTIVE BIOTECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^d HELSINKI UNIVERSITY CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Repertoire; T cell; TCR diversity; Thymus

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR ALPHA CHAIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR BETA CHAIN; LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN RECEPTOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INFANT; MALE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; IMMUNOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROCEDURES;

FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL, ALPHA-BETA; THYMUS GLAND; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84978412144     PISSN: 01615890     EISSN: 18729142     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2016.07.002     Document Type: Article

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