Adaptive immune receptor repertoire analysis

V Mhanna, H Bashour, K Lê Quý, P Barennes… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
B cell and T cell receptor repertoires compose the adaptive immune receptor repertoire
(AIRR) of an individual. The AIRR is a unique collection of antigen-specific receptors that …

Immunoglobulin germline gene variation and its impact on human disease

I Mikocziova, V Greiff, LM Sollid - Genes & Immunity, 2021 - nature.com
Immunoglobulins (Ig) play an important role in the immune system both when expressed as
antigen receptors on the cell surface of B cells and as antibodies secreted into extracellular …

Spatial transcriptomics of B cell and T cell receptors reveals lymphocyte clonal dynamics

C Engblom, K Thrane, Q Lin, A Andersson, H Toosi… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The spatial distribution of lymphocyte clones within tissues is critical to their development,
selection, and expansion. We have developed spatial transcriptomics of variable, diversity …

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 …

The evolutionary and functional significance of germline immunoglobulin gene variation

M Pennell, OL Rodriguez, CT Watson, V Greiff - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
The recombination between immunoglobulin (IG) gene segments determines an individual's
naïve antibody repertoire and, consequently,(auto) antigen recognition. Emerging evidence …

IGHV allele similarity clustering improves genotype inference from adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing data

A Peres, WD Lees, OL Rodriguez, NY Lee… - Nucleic Acids …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In adaptive immune receptor repertoire analysis, determining the germline variable (V) allele
associated with each T-and B-cell receptor sequence is a crucial step. This process is highly …

[HTML][HTML] The role of metadata in reproducible computational research

J Leipzig, D Nüst, CT Hoyt, K Ram, J Greenberg - Patterns, 2021 - cell.com
Reproducible computational research (RCR) is the keystone of the scientific method for in
silico analyses, packaging the transformation of raw data to published results. In addition to …

Archaic humans have contributed to large-scale variation in modern human T cell receptor genes

M Corcoran, M Chernyshev, M Mandolesi, S Narang… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Human T cell receptors (TCRs) are critical for mediating immune responses to pathogens
and tumors and regulating self-antigen recognition. Yet, variations in the genes encoding …

Improving generalization of machine learning-identified biomarkers using causal modelling with examples from immune receptor diagnostics

M Pavlović, GS Al Hajj, C Kanduri, J Pensar… - Nature Machine …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Machine learning is increasingly used to discover diagnostic and prognostic
biomarkers from high-dimensional molecular data. However, a variety of factors related to …

T cell receptor beta germline variability is revealed by inference from repertoire data

A Omer, A Peres, OL Rodriguez, CT Watson, W Lees… - Genome medicine, 2022 - Springer
Background T and B cell receptor (TCR, BCR) repertoires constitute the foundation of
adaptive immunity. Adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing (AIRR-seq) is a …