Reconstructing a B-cell clonal lineage. I. Statistical inference of unobserved ancestors [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/z6]

One of the key phenomena in the adaptive immune response to infection and immunization is affinity maturation, during which antibody genes are mutated and selected, typically resulting in a substantial increase in binding affinity to the eliciting antigen. Advances in technology on several fronts ha...

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Main Author: Thomas B Kepler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: F1000 Research Ltd 2013-04-01
Series:F1000Research
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Online Access:http://f1000research.com/articles/2-103/v1