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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2014

Trials and Tribulations with VH Replacement.

Wenzhao Meng, Sahana Jayaraman, Bochao Zhang, Gregory W Schwartz, Robert D Daber, Uri Hershberg, Alfred L Garfall, Christopher S Carlson, Eline T Luning Prak

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
13citing papers in PubMed
1.6field-weighted citation impact, top 17% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. VDJ-REMIX: REpertoire Module Identification and eXploration.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026
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  8. B cell development in chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome.Clinical immunology (Orlando, Fla.) · 2016
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  10. The analysis of clonal expansions in normal and autoimmune B cell repertoires.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2015
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  11. Antibody repertoire diversification through VH gene replacement in mice cloned from an IgA plasma cell.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Wenzhao MengDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Sahana JayaramanDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Bochao ZhangSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Gregory W SchwartzSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Robert D DaberDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA , USA ; Center for Personalized Diagnostics, University of Pennsylvania Health System , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Uri HershbergSchool of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems, Drexel University , Philadelphia, PA , USA ; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine, Drexel University , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Alfred L GarfallDivision of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
Christopher S CarlsonPublic Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center , Seattle, WA , USA.
Eline T Luning PrakDepartment of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA , USA.
University of Pennsylvania · USDrexel University · USFred Hutch Cancer Center · USUniversity of Pennsylvania Health System · US

Funding

CANCER RESEARCH TRAINING PROGRAMT32CA009615 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI Gregory L Beatty, MICHAEL D HOGARTY · 1988 to 2026
$10.4M
Undergraduate Training in Gastrointestinal SciencesR25DK066028 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI JONATHAN P KATZ · 2004 to 2026
$2.1M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009615NIDDK NIH HHS R25 DK066028
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

VH replacement (VHR) is a type of antibody gene rearrangement in which an upstream heavy chain variable gene segment (VH) invades a pre-existing rearrangement (VDJ). In this Hypothesis and Theory article, we begin by reviewing the mechanism of VHR, its developmental timing and its potential biological consequences. Then we explore the hypothesis that specific sequence motifs called footprints reflect VHR versus other processes. We provide a compilation of footprint sequences from different regions of the antibody heavy chain, and include data from the literature and from a high throughput sequencing experiment to evaluate the significance of footprint sequences. We conclude by discussing the difficulties of attributing footprints to VHR.

Indexed as

and JH gene segmentsDHreceptor editingV(D)J recombinationVHVH replacement

Identifiers

PMID24523721
PMCPMC3906580
OpenAlexW2083173850

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