Journal
IMMUNOLOGICAL REVIEWS
Volume 284, Issue 1, Pages 167-179Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/imr.12665
Keywords
inference; probability of generation; public sequences; TCR repertoires; TCR sharing
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- ERCCOG [724208]
- NSF [PHY-1607612]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1607611]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1607612] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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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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