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SUBMITTER: Glanville J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3250199 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Glanville Jacob J Kuo Tracy C TC von Büdingen H-Christian HC Guey Lin L Berka Jan J Sundar Purnima D PD Huerta Gabriella G Mehta Gautam R GR Oksenberg Jorge R JR Hauser Stephen L SL Cox David R DR Rajpal Arvind A Pons Jaume J
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20111128 50
A diverse antibody repertoire is essential for an effective adaptive immune response to novel molecular surfaces. Although past studies have observed common patterns of V-segment use, as well as variation in V-segment use between individuals, the relative contributions to variance from genetics, disease, age, and environment have remained unclear. Using high-throughput sequence analysis of monozygotic twins, we show that variation in naive V(H) and D(H) segment use is strongly determined by an i ...[more]