Method for identification of condition-associated public antigen receptor sequences

  1. Mikhail V Pogorelyy
  2. Anastasia A Minervina
  3. Dmitriy M Chudakov
  4. Ilgar Z Mamedov
  5. Yuri B Lebedev  Is a corresponding author
  6. Thierry Mora  Is a corresponding author
  7. Aleksandra M Walczak  Is a corresponding author
  1. Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian Federation
  2. École Normale Supérieure, France

Abstract

Diverse repertoires of hypervariable immunoglobulin receptors (TCR and BCR) recognize antigens in the adaptive immune system. The development of immunoglobulin receptor repertoire sequencing methods makes it possible to perform repertoire-wide disease association studies of antigen receptor sequences. We developed a statistical framework for associating receptors to disease from only a small cohort of patients, with no need for a control cohort. Our method successfully identifies previously validated Cytomegalovirus and type 1 diabetes responsive TCRβ sequences.

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  1. Mikhail V Pogorelyy

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    No competing interests declared.
  2. Anastasia A Minervina

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  3. Dmitriy M Chudakov

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  4. Ilgar Z Mamedov

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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  5. Yuri B Lebedev

    Department of Genomics of Adaptive Immunity, Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russian Federation
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    lebedev_yb@mx.ibch.ru
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    No competing interests declared.
  6. Thierry Mora

    Laboratoire de Physique Statistique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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    tmora@lps.ens.fr
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    No competing interests declared.
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  7. Aleksandra M Walczak

    Laboratoire de Physique Theorique, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
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    awalczak@lpt.ens.fr
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    Aleksandra M Walczak, Reviewing editor, eLife.
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Funding

Russian Science Foundation (15-15-00178)

  • Dmitriy M Chudakov
  • Ilgar Z Mamedov
  • Yuri B Lebedev

European Research Council (724208)

  • Aleksandra M Walczak

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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© 2018, Pogorelyy et al.

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  1. Mikhail V Pogorelyy
  2. Anastasia A Minervina
  3. Dmitriy M Chudakov
  4. Ilgar Z Mamedov
  5. Yuri B Lebedev
  6. Thierry Mora
  7. Aleksandra M Walczak
(2018)
Method for identification of condition-associated public antigen receptor sequences
eLife 7:e33050.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.33050

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