Predicting the spectrum of TCR repertoire sharing with a data‐driven model of recombination

Y Elhanati, Z Sethna, CG Callan Jr, T Mora… - Immunological …, 2018‏ - Wiley Online Library
Despite the extreme diversity of T‐cell repertoires, many identical T‐cell receptor (TCR)
sequences are found in a large number of individual mice and humans. These widely …

The individual and population genetics of antibody immunity

CT Watson, J Glanville, WA Marasco - Trends in immunology, 2017‏ - cell.com
Antibodies (Abs) produced by immunoglobulin (IG) genes are the most diverse proteins
expressed in humans. While part of this diversity is generated by recombination during B …

Immunoglobulin germline gene polymorphisms influence the function of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies

P Pushparaj, A Nicoletto, DJ Sheward, H Das… - Immunity, 2023‏ - cell.com
The human immunoglobulin heavy-chain (IGH) locus is exceptionally polymorphic, with high
levels of allelic and structural variation. Thus, germline IGH genotypes are personal, which …

A novel framework for characterizing genomic haplotype diversity in the human immunoglobulin heavy chain locus

OL Rodriguez, WS Gibson, T Parks, M Emery… - Frontiers in …, 2020‏ - frontiersin.org
An incomplete ascertainment of genetic variation within the highly polymorphic
immunoglobulin heavy chain locus (IGH) has hindered our ability to define genetic factors …

Population variability in the generation and selection of T-cell repertoires

Z Sethna, G Isacchini, T Dupic, T Mora… - PLOS Computational …, 2020‏ - journals.plos.org
The diversity of T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires is achieved by a combination of two
intrinsically stochastic steps: random receptor generation by VDJ recombination, and …

Individualized VDJ recombination predisposes the available Ig sequence space

A Slabodkin, M Chernigovskaya, I Mikocziova… - Genome …, 2021‏ - genome.cshlp.org
The process of recombination between variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J)
immunoglobulin (Ig) gene segments determines an individual's naive Ig repertoire and …

Inferred allelic variants of immunoglobulin receptor genes: a system for their evaluation, documentation, and naming

M Ohlin, C Scheepers, M Corcoran, WD Lees… - Frontiers in …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
Immunoglobulins or antibodies are the main effector molecules of the B-cell lineage and are
encoded by hundreds of variable (V), diversity (D), and joining (J) germline genes, which …

Beyond hot spots: biases in antibody somatic hypermutation and implications for vaccine design

CA Schramm, DC Douek - Frontiers in immunology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
The evolution of antibodies in an individual during an immune response by somatic
hypermutation (SHM) is essential for the ability of the immune system to recognize and …

Population matched (pm) germline allelic variants of immunoglobulin (IG) loci: Relevance in infectious diseases and vaccination studies in human populations

I Khatri, MA Berkowska, EB van den Akker… - Genes & …, 2021‏ - nature.com
Immunoglobulin (IG) loci harbor inter-individual allelic variants in many different germline IG
variable, diversity and joining genes of the IG heavy (IGH), kappa (IGK) and lambda (IGL) …

Comment on “a database of human immune receptor alleles recovered from population sequencing data”

CT Watson, FA Matsen, KJL Jackson… - The Journal of …, 2017‏ - journals.aai.org
It was with great interest that we read the recently published article by Yu et al.(1), which
proposes a solution to the problem of building complete and accurate databases of germline …