How the thymus designs antigen-specific and self-tolerant T cell receptor sequences.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 22, 2008

Authors

Andrej Kosmrlj1, Abhishek K Jha, Eric S Huseby, Mehran Kardar, Arup K Chakraborty

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1: Departments of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

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