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Tekijä:Aggarwal, Kunal
Työn nimi:T-Cell Receptor Diversity in the Human Immune System
Julkaisutyyppi:Diplomityö
Julkaisuvuosi:2015
Sivut:v + 39 s. + liitt. 9      Kieli:   eng
Koulu/Laitos/Osasto:Perustieteiden korkeakoulu
Oppiaine:Computational and Systems Biology   (T-61)
Valvoja:Lähdesmäki, Harri ; Aurell, Erik
Ohjaaja:Saramäki, Jari
Elektroninen julkaisu: http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:aalto-201509184438
Sijainti:P1 Ark Aalto  3009   | Arkisto
Avainsanat:T-cell receptors
immune diversity
recombination
parametric and non-parametric models
kigh-throughput sequencing
Tiivistelmä (eng):T-Cell Receptors are heterodimeric molecules composed of two hyper-variable protein chains.
TCR Diversity is widely recognized as a direct measure of immune competence as it quantifies the variety of foreign antigens our immune system can recognize, and hence act upon.
TCR diversity is generated by V(D)J recombination, a random process which rearranges variable (V), joining (J) and sometimes also diversity (D) segments of the gene encoding the antigen-binding region of the TCR.
With the advent of high-throughput sequencing technology it is now possible to sequence a very large number of cells for these genes.

However the immune cell count in any healthy individual is still beyond the currently feasible limits for sequencing and thus it requires that the total population diversity be estimated from a sample.
Here, state-of-the-art approaches are used to model the sample diversity from millions of cells from thymus tissues.
The population density is then estimated based on these models.
Both parametric and non-parametric approaches are considered.
ED:2015-09-27
INSSI tietueen numero: 52155
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