High-throughput sequencing of B- and T-lymphocyte antigen receptors in hematology

Edus H Warren1, Frederick A Matsen, Jeffrey Chou

  • 1Program in Immunology, Clinical Research Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. ehwarren@u.washington.edu

Blood
|May 10, 2013
PubMed

Application of high-throughput DNA sequencing to the analysis of B- and T-lymphocyte antigen receptors has great potential for improving the monitoring of lymphoid malignancies, assessing immune reconstitution after hematopoietic cell transplantation, and characterizing the composition of lymphocyte repertoires. Current technology can define the number and frequency of immunoglobulin heavy, T-cell receptor (TCR)α, TCRβ, or TCRγ chains expressed in a population of lymphocytes; techniques for determining the number of antigen receptor heterodimers, such as TCRαβ pairs, expressed in the population are under development.