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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2026

An integrated human immunoglobulin germline resource linking allele diversity to expressed repertoire structure.

Ayelet Peres, Uddalok Jana, Oscar L Rodriguez, Zachary M Vanwinkle, Eric Engelbrecht, William S Gibson, Kaitlyn Shields, Brandon Croslin, Steven Schultze, Chandrima Bharadwaj and 5 more

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15 authors.

Ayelet PeresDepartment of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0188-7315
Uddalok JanaDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.ORCID 0009-0003-0134-7874
Oscar L RodriguezDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-4587-6124
Zachary M VanwinkleDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Eric EngelbrechtDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
William S GibsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Kaitlyn ShieldsDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Brandon CroslinDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Steven SchultzeDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Chandrima BharadwajDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Connor MurrayDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
William LeesClareo Biosciences, Louisville, KY 40202, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-9834-6840
Melissa L SmithDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.
Corey T WatsonDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7248-8787
Gur YaariDepartment of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9311-9884

Funding

An ethnically diverse genomic reference resource for the human heavy and light chain immunoglobulin lociR24AI138963 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE · PI Melissa Laird Smith, Corey Taylor Watson · 2018 to 2026
$5.5M
i-AKC: Integrated AIRR Knowledge CommonsU24AI177622 · NIAID · UT SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER · PI LINDSAY G. COWELL · 2023 to 2026
$4.0M
NIAID NIH HHS R24 AI138963NIAID NIH HHS U24 AI177622
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human immunoglobulin (IG) loci are highly polymorphic, yet existing germline resources remain noisy and incomplete, limiting our ability to link inherited variation to antibody repertoires. Here, we integrate high-fidelity long-read genomic sequencing with matched adaptive immune receptor repertoire sequencing (AIRR-seq) to construct HUSA, a population-scale, evidence-resolved germline resource. Using a conservative allele inference framework, HUSA expands current references more than three-fold, identifying over 1300 alleles while preserving allele-level evidence provenance across genomic and repertoire data. By linking genotype and expressed repertoires within individuals, we show that coding-region similarity predicts the structure of adjacent recombination signal sequences and leader regions, revealing that IG alleles are organized as linked cis-regulatory units associated with differences in recombination context and allele usage. These results define key germline constraints shaping repertoire formation and establish a robust, genotype-aware foundation for the analysis of immune receptor repertoires.

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PMID42327140
PMCPMC13278047

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