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ReviewImmunological reviews2018

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

Yuval Elhanati, Zachary Sethna, Curtis G Callan, Thierry Mora, Aleksandra M Walczak

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 82 papers.

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82 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yuval ElhanatiJoseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Zachary SethnaJoseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Curtis G CallanJoseph Henry Laboratories, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Thierry MoraLaboratoire de physique statistique, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris-Diderot, and École Normale Supérieure (PSL University), Paris, France.
Aleksandra M WalczakLaboratoire de physique théorique, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, and École Normale Supérieure (PSL University), Paris, France.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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 shared sequences, often referred to as "public," have been suggested to be over-represented due to their potential immune functionality or their ease of generation by V(D)J recombination. Here, we show that even for large cohorts, the observed degree of sharing of TCR sequences between individuals is well predicted by a model accounting for the known quantitative statistical biases in the generation process, together with a simple model of thymic selection. Whether a sequence is shared by many individuals is predicted to depend on the number of queried individuals and the sampling depth, as well as on the sequence itself, in agreement with the data. We introduce the degree of publicness conditional on the queried cohort size and the size of the sampled repertoires. Based on these observations, we propose a public/private sequence classifier, "PUBLIC" (Public Universal Binary Likelihood Inference Classifier), based on the generation probability, which performs very well even for small cohort sizes.

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AlgorithmsAnimalsHumansMiceReceptors, Antigen, T-CellT-LymphocytesV(D)J RecombinationReceptors, Antigen, T-Cellinferenceprobability of generationpublic sequencesTCR repertoiresTCR sharing

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PMID29944757
PMCPMC6033145

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