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ArticleScience translational medicine2009

Measurement and clinical monitoring of human lymphocyte clonality by massively parallel VDJ pyrosequencing.

Scott D Boyd, Eleanor L Marshall, Jason D Merker, Jay M Maniar, Lyndon N Zhang, Bita Sahaf, Carol D Jones, Birgitte B Simen, Bozena Hanczaruk, Khoa D Nguyen and 5 more

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Article in Science translational medicine, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 251 papers.

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251citing papers in PubMed
7.8field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

251 citing papers in PubMed, 398 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Scott D BoydDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Eleanor L Marshall
Jason D Merker
Jay M Maniar
Lyndon N Zhang
Bita Sahaf
Carol D Jones
Birgitte B Simen
Bozena Hanczaruk
Khoa D Nguyen
Kari C Nadeau
Michael Egholm
David B Miklos
James L Zehnder
Andrew Z Fire
Stanford University · US

Funding

TUMOR SPECIFIC CYTOTOXIC T-LYMPHOCYTES IN BONE MARROW TRANSPLANTATIONP01CA049605 · NCI · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI David B. Miklos · 1989 to 2026
$73.3M
MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007365 · NIGMS · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI CHUA, KATRIN F · 1985 to 2021
$33.8M
Stanford Islet Research CoreP30DK116074 · NIDDK · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI Seung K Kim · 2017 to 2026
$19.5M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA049605NCI NIH HHS P01CA049605NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007365NIGMS NIH HHS T32GM07365-34
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The complex repertoire of immune receptors generated by B and T cells enables recognition of diverse threats to the host organism. In this work, we show that massively parallel DNA sequencing of rearranged immune receptor loci can provide direct detection and tracking of immune diversity and expanded clonal lymphocyte populations in physiological and pathological contexts. DNA was isolated from blood and tissue samples, a series of redundant primers was used to amplify diverse DNA rearrangements, and the resulting mixtures of barcoded amplicons were sequenced using long-read ultra deep sequencing. Individual DNA molecules were then characterized on the basis of DNA segments that had been joined to make a functional (or nonfunctional) immune effector. Current experimental designs can accommodate up to 150 samples in a single sequence run, with the depth of sequencing sufficient to identify stable and dynamic aspects of the immune repertoire in both normal and diseased circumstances. These data provide a high-resolution picture of immune spectra in normal individuals and in patients with hematological malignancies, illuminating, in the latter case, both the initial behavior of clonal tumor populations and the later suppression or re-emergence of such populations after treatment.

Indexed as

Gene Rearrangement, B-LymphocyteGenes, Immunoglobulin Heavy ChainHigh-Throughput Screening AssaysAdultAgedB-LymphocytesCase-Control StudiesClone CellsDNA PrimersGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticGene LibraryHematologic NeoplasmsHumansMiddle AgedNeoplasm, ResidualReceptors, ImmunologicDNA PrimersReceptors, Immunologic

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PMID20161664
PMCPMC2819115
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