Human bone marrow samples show highly individual Ig-Repertoires.

<p>(a) Schematic overview of human VDJ-amplicons. Amplicon libraries for each Ig class contain framework (FR2, 3) and complementary determining regions (CDR1, 2, 3). (b) In a set of 4000 IgG-sequences per bone marrow sample, clones with 95% CDR3 sequence identity and identical VJ-usage were clustered as clonotypes. Frequencies of clonotypes are indicated by color code; clonotypes comprising more than 5% of the repertoire are highlighted in blue and numbers indicate their frequencies; grey color indicates absence of a given clonotype. Clontypes were sorted according to their frequency in healthy donor (HD) 1 and the 100 most frequent clonotypes of HD1 and their abundance in HD2-4 were displayed as heatmap. Similarity of repertoires was expressed as Morisita-Horn index (MHI), comparing 4000 clustered CDR3 sequences of HD1-4. Symbols represent pairwise comparisons. (c) The IgG-repertoire of HD4 (I) was re-investigated as independent V_H1DJ-amplificate (II) or de-novo cDNA plus V_H1DJ-amplificate (III). Repertoire-similarity of I to its technical replicates II and III is illustrated by heatmap and MHI, evaluating 2500 clustered sequences of each sample.